10 MAR 2017 by ideonexus
The Receiving Set
In radio and television, for instance, the Other Men were technically far ahead of us, but the use to which they put their astounding inventions was disastrous. In civilized countries everyone but the pariahs carried a pocket receiving set. As the Other Men had no music, this may seem odd; but since they lacked newspapers, radio was the only means by which the man in the street could learn the lottery and sporting results which were his staple mental diet. The place of music, moreover, was ta...Folksonomies: science fiction
Folksonomies: science fiction
01 JAN 2010 by ideonexus
How Design of Medium Inhibits Growth
Every transistor radio is, by the nature of its construction, at the same time a potential transmitter; it can interact with other receivers by circuit reversal. The development from a mere distribution medium to a communications medium is technically not a problem. It is consciously prevented fro understandable political reasons. The technical distinction between receivers and transmitters reflects the social division of labor into producers and consumers, which in the consciousness industry...Radios are not just for receiving, but for broadcasting, but we don't design them that way. Corporations control our interactions with the medium.