Technopolis - the World Box

Rereading Technopolis by Nigel Calder written in 1969. Calder writes of a 'World Box'- a 'total information system' capable of delivering millions of words and pictures into the living room. 'The work of commercial and professional organisations will be transformed. There may be no very clear distinction between authors, scholars, publishers, librarians, television producers or anyone else who can be called an information mediator - but it will be their task to save mankind from drowning in its own information' ..'the rate at which the human being can assimilate information via his senses and his brain is strictly limited, the result of an overload of information is confusion, distraction and eclipse of thought; alternatively information presented as painlessly and agreeably as possible could become a kind of drug'. Calder discusses the social, legal and governmental issues of interaction, control and legislation. Very prescient, very interesting.