Postmodern video pioneer Nam June Paik died last weekend. A metafilter post has some good links to his work. Here's a bit from the MSNBC obit:
In a 1974 report commissioned by the Rockefeller Foundation, Paik wrote of a telecommunications network of the future he called the “Electronic Super Highway,” predicting it “will become our springboard for new and surprising human endeavors.” Two decades later, when “information superhighway” had become the phrase of the moment, he commented, “Bill Clinton stole my idea.”
He also was often credited with coining the phrase, “The future is now.”
[via metafilter.com]
Posted by johndanseven at January 30, 2006 09:16 PM