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(hardware) /tit'ee/ /T T Y/ 1. A teletype terminal, characterised by a
noisy mechanical printer, a very limited character set, and poor print
quality.
Usage: antiquated (like the TTYs themselves). |
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(hardware) /tit'ee/ /T T Y/ 1. A teletype terminal, characterised by a
noisy mechanical printer, a very limited character set, and poor print
quality.
Usage: antiquated (like the TTYs themselves). |
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from around the world. TTY is a fundamental unix protocol for a
computerized remote control. Through this pipeline of text, the spectacle
of a networked society is built up one abstraction at a time. As our
machines decode these sequences and reorganize the raw data into a
sensible human-readable form, so too does the machine become part of us,
and we become part of the machine. Will the interface become so
transparent to us that we lose our context in this virtual jungle?
Computers have become our automata, but let's never forget that this
entire on-line universe is built up, piece by piece, by human beings at a
console.
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"The components of the Videodrome are mainframes, minis, micros and
personal computers, TV sets, printers, copiers, automated cashpoints,
automatons, point-of-sale sensors, aerials, surveillance technology, fibre
optic wires, hackers, bio and silicon chips, software, hardcore, tapes,
discs, diagnostic equipment -- a babble, babel, Babylon of Spectacularly
appropriated languages, ju-ju, telephones, modems, telexes, relays, radio,
cable, satellites, the semaphore of social communications systems, visual
body languages, the shifts of Capital through the electronic plasma of the
video DNA. The terrain has really changed since 'The Society of the
Spectacle' (DeBord). It's pure programming phenomenon and information
now. Therefore it is no longer merely a question of the subversion of
social relations or of making radical changes in 'everyday life'
(Vaneigem). Everything is being drawn, inch by inch, towards the new
spectacular event horizon, the information Babylon, the image syndrome,
THE DNA VIDEODROME. The technology of the Videodrome is now interphasing
with the nervous system through a variety of devices, becoming day by day
more fused and symbiotic. It can be seen most clearly in the medical data
bases, military experiments at Porton Down, diagnostic and treatment
machines buzzing in BUPA hospitals. The video DNA world is becoming
wired-up to the brain nerve complex with the invention of new sensing
devices and psycho-perceptual systems. The Spectacle is scrambling and
re-sequencing itself with new simultaneities and juxtapositions. There
are also recombinant changes going on with the rise of multi-nationals,
artificial intelligence, cyberspace, and gene programmes..."
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