Paxman didn't get it did he?

​@@MrRolandgent Most people didn't. Go find clips of Bill Gates explaining the Internet to David Letterman. Letterman's a smart guy, and it's like someone trying to explain an automobile to a chimpanzee. The Internet was still a fairly abstract notion for many people back in the '90s. Young people understood it, but many older people were still ignoring it. Also, Bowie is talking about a future phase of the Internet. He's smelling the emergence of a lot of stuff there. Social media is probably the biggest thing, or the thing that addresses most of what he's talking about efficiently, particularly as it relates to the relationship between an artist and their audience. He's also talking about commerce. In the late '90s, people were still wary about buying things online. I was in high school, and my mom refused to let me use her credit card number to buy an import CD on Amazon because she didn't trust it. I had the money to pay for it, but there was no other way to buy it. Tower Records didn't sell import CDs. The Internet was my only option, and most adults still had quite a bit of reluctance about the Internet.

The ones who actually did were the least "people" that humanity had to offer.

love so many artist now gone too soon, but with Bowie and George Michael, the world is not quite so full

Animated for sure

It's called a hairdresser/stylist

@@BarryRerack147 listen back he definitely inferred it

@R M internet has destroyed thing. I like to use it now and then, but people are OBSESSED with it now and can’t admit it

@@conorsmith8551 I agree. Internet really started the information war, and its all about reputation, and while back in the past goverments were the gatekeepers of information (which turned out to be very ineffective), now companies who give information the platform in the first place (like youtube, google, twitter, tiktok, twitch, etc) become the gatekeepers , and there is almost nothing society can do about it. The companies defining whats hatespeech and what not ; what deserves censored and what not , and even worst: invented new kinds of censorships where a person doesnt even know he got censored (like shadowbans ) . Also internet created bubbles which enables all kind of conspiracy theories much more effective than back in the past with books of some ''crazy authors'' . Thats how even such a bonkers theory like flat earth can get much bigger impact on people compared to 100 years ago. The internet made the promise: that education can spread faster and easier. Thats partly true. In comparison to pre-internet-era knowledge and education by the internet indeed increased in speed, and is much more easy to access. You can now can learn even top tier math on youtube, or Wikipedia - often even interactive etc. But... and here comes the big BUT : stupidity also increased its speed by the internet. And because knowledge and education is always harder to gain, than stupidity, - the effect internet had on intellectual part will always be slower (regardless which technology is invented for spreading information, like the letterpress - also with the letter press misinformation and a lot of wrong thoughts enabled the worst epidemic indicences in history of society.. just think of ''Hexenhammer'' (for the witch burnings) and ''M*** Kampf'' for the holocaust). If intellectual parts are speed up by a factor of 10 by the internet, stupidity is speed up by a factor of 100 ... So the greater the technology to spread information , the more it helps the stupid parts of the mankind to gain power and influence. And therefore its also not a coincidence, that we all probably dont know one youtube-incluencer who is an intellectual. Jordan Peterson ? Maybe ? Dont say, there are no intellectuals on youtube. There are... but influential to society ? There are much more hazy minded individuals out there, or ''funny ones'' who are influential. Because entertainment is much less of an efford, than learning. And yes - like i said: ideologys, like the wokeness-cultures (which begins to be more and more exclusive than inclusive... like a cult : ''you have to believe in the same rules the wokeness gives for you, to be accepted from that cult... otherwise you face consequences nowadays... which can be go as far as being banned from social plattforms... and that nowadays means more and more: disconnected from society ... like virtual KZ-camps (=you can still be on the internet but not on places anymore which are connected with the majority of people ... and certainly not at places where your opinion can reach the majority of people... its not different as 700 years ago, when they banned a witch from a village - so that she had to live in the forest by her own, and usually died horribly from starving etc ) So .. the internet is heaven as hell at the same time. On paper it could be heaven... But human beings ruining everything. On paper also book press was an amazing invention. Its just in the nature of humans to gain control about information - to increase their influence and social status. Its not only since internet exists. Its probably since language itself exist. Ruining the reputation of someone gets power. And power gets females, and females guarantees the spreading of the own genes into the future. And because that fundamental truth cant be erased from human beings, the abusing of information technologies also cant be avoided. Meaning: we are doomed , if internet doesnt gets his ''age of enlightement'' .. which probably will need maybe 50 or 100 years from now... Because first we as mankind have to go through big suffering about what power of stupidity internet enables FIRST ... then when everyone recognized it (like how bad witch burnings are, when it affects everyone) , THAN internet will change for the better. Not sooner. Until then, only few people try to tell what would be important, but nothing changes. Mankind needs suffering to learn. Unfortunately.

I have to have a set of conflicts going around me. They don't need to be created from my own doing. I've learned that that is particularly a bad idea…..Well, I don't create my own conflicts in my own life. I think I used to do that to an extent when I was younger. Having an addictive personality, I would be drawn to create conflict that would produce the tension necessary to write. Now I find I can do it by observation rather than being deeply involved in a mess.

things are born, live, and die online. it really can be modelled as a symbiotic living alien we made. people listening to him in 99 must have politely thought he was very poetic about it all. this is as spooky as HG Wells writing about the atomic bomb in 1913 in "a world set free"

He also slipped the word singularity in there ;)

Not very profound tho

@@seanbirtwistle649 and strangely both H.G. Wells and David Bowiie grew up in Bromley

same

Omg, I just commented the same thing. So true.

He was lucky to leave when he did. Tbh.

From London ladies and gentlemen? From London, ladies and gentlemen.

Was he once Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones?

No he's not. That is Jeremy Paxman a man renowned for felling politicians. I think he's slightly in awe of Bowie and genuinely interested in what he's saying.

Paxman is no mug

Yes, but online communities exist. You can live on the internet. Get your news off of youtubers , streamers, and Twitter, and get your music and film all on the internet. We have memes that the entire internet gets, you know how crazy that is?? We have the power to dictate what big studios make (look at the woke trend of the late 2010s and early 2020s, and now look at movies like Deadpool vs Wolverine) the vibe on the internet shifts and it shifts in the real world. Residencies have been won online. Careers began.

He knew. He saw.

Tbf it’s because of alcoholic years

He stopped a long time ago. He was close to death in the mid-70s, and he pulled himself out of it. Unfortunately, his destructive lifestyle, even though he changed it, caught up to him eventually. The body never forgets.

1999

It was the wild west, and the information freely available was mind-blowing. I was there, from the beginning. R.I.P. Internet 1997-2003

The rebellion is still happening though...using the same.new tech

@@beyondz55 As long as you don't understand what controlled opposition is, then yes, the "rebellion" is afoot.

The internet has given more people the opportunity to move up in the world than anything else in history

He has some issues with the English language apparently because what David is saying is crystal clear. Very arrogant to make him look like a loonie with the constant gesturing.

He didn’t understand what was happening. Bowie was completely right.

age tends to do that in general

90s were the peak of our civilization. If I had a time machine I would do the 90s in an eternal loop

Agreed!

I thought he did a great job encouraging great answers from Bowie