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Courtesy Phone: It Rings for Thee

Post author By Daedalus Howell
Post date November 6, 2008
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When it comes to dead media, I’m something of a tomb raider (at least I was while penning a futuristic ode to the Singularity, Google-gone-awry and 70s sci-fi flicks). Of course, scribe Bruce Sterling’s Dead Media Project aided in this endeavor and recently I encountered a similar project at Netherlands-based Experimental Jetset’s rather stylish Lost…

Tags borges, Bruce Sterling, Clark Kent, courtesy phone, dead media, Dr. Who, Experimental Jetset, google, It Rings for Thee, Lost Formats, mcsweeney's, phone, sci-fi

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Don’t Call Us

Imagine if Grace Kelley slid her pinky over her iPhone screen instead of answering the landline tethered to her would-be assassination in Dial M for Murder; or if E.T., the Extra-Terrestrial, used his rollover minutes instead of hotwiring a Speak ?N? Spell to phone home. Contemporary communication tools have made us reachable 24/7, consequently, screenwriters…

Tags Brooke Gladstone, Clay Shirky, Dial M. for Murder, Don't Call Us, E.T., Here Comes Everyone, iPhone, movies, On The Media, phone, Web 2.0, Zachary Pincus-Roth