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Episode 257: Aural Fixation

Very Bad Wizards

The Power of Computers to Create a Good Sensory Life

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He says, the computer can be used to direct a network of global thermostats to pattern life in ways that will optimize human awareness. He's very condescending The computer could program the media to determine the given messages and how people should hear them. Creating a total media experience absorbed and patterned by all the senses. But what he's describing is actually what's happened except for not in the good way Like computers have been programmed to provide different sensory experiences to different people And shape opinions and shape behavior.

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