Re: CYBERWATCH on SBS TV

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From: Jason Stokes
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 00:00

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In article <VA.0000004d.0001afad@ppp-2.bns.com.au>, mtindall@bns.com.au wrote:

: stuartd@matra.com.au wrote...> 
: > CYBERWATCH on SBS TV
: > 
: > Throughout November 1996, SBS Television will screen ten programmes
: > relating to the world's advancing technological systems. The > 
: > CYBERWATCH package will showcase the incredible world of computers 
: > and their amazing capabilities. From a hi-tech animated heroine to 
: > the not-so-humble silicon chip; from sex in cyberspace to fractal > 
: > geometry; from biological technology to the science of code-breaking 
: > - series, films and documentaries will provide ten full days of the > 
: > best in cyber-entertainment on SBS, beginning Saturday 9 November.
: 
:  
:  Sounds like one more over-animated, overdone, geewhizz!!!! type 
:  series comprising lots of puff, fluff, bells and whistles. Suitable 
:  for moms, dads and kids. As Shakespeare well said - full of sound 
:  and fury and signifying nothing. Lord spare us...
:  
: -------------------
: Maurice E Tindall
: Adelaide - Australia
: -------------------

Moreover, they spammed all over the net in announcing it.  Then again, so
am I - think I'll trim the crossposts to just my fave newsgroups...

There.

Maurice has got it just right.  Information Technology is a sufficiently
mature and pervasive technology that these "Gee Whiz" type treatments just
look fatuous.

I wonder if they'll screen anything on linux, GNU or the FSF?  Or will it
be Bill Gates wankorama?

-- 
Jason Stokes: j.stokes@student.anu.edu.au

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From: j.stokes@student.anu.edu.au (Jason Stokes)
Subject: Re: CYBERWATCH on SBS TV
Date: 1996/10/14
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