Max Headroom had a profound developmental impact on me: it irrevocably changed how I perceived media, politics, technology, ethics, morality, authority, and subversion.
This article provides a pretty good introduction as to why.
http://www.onthemedia.org/…/on-th…/2012/may/25/max-headroom/
This week OTM reflects on a night twenty five years ago when two Chicago television stations' broadcasts were interrupted by the someone posing as the fictional computer generated host “Max Headroom.” But of all the faces available to hide behind, why Max Headroom's? What was it about a ...
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