Æliens

Peter Greven 23/3/2001 (Volkskrant)

New media sucks

People like new technology.

They don't like new media

TIVO -- smart video recorder

• experiments (failed): videofoon, videotext, cd-i, DCC
• Canal+: information overload

Jan van Dijk (UTwente) The Network Society

Spaghetti method:

• plate against the wall
• which will stick

aka trial and error

Broadband

• download & upload (Sweden: upload!)
• video-on-demand ... vs library