"Where are you?" He asked her.
"I'm in Trigue... in Trigue..." She said.

I've always been intrigued by the way that old media attempts to compete with new media by assimilating their styles and forms: the way that kids TV shows style their visuals after CD-Roms, streaming video, web pages, just like they did about twenty years ago when video came along, using basic editing effects to simulate Fast Forward, Pause, Rewind, even going so far as to style entire shows on the theme of 'Video Show': "Rewind", "Ovid Video", "The Kenny Everitt Video Show".

I'm always warey of new warez. Innovations in communications exclude as much as they include. But even I can see that the increasing availability of digital phones with camera capabilities has created all kinds of possibilities for a new kind of discrete spy-cam subversiveness. An example that hadn't occured to before: why buy the magazine / paper when you can visit its web site, or in the case of video phones, scan-snap the pages you like the look of.

Link via Gibson blog archive.