How Sci-Fi Shapes the Internet

Huffduffed by BenjaminParry on September 6th, 2010

What if Rod Serling had a blog? Would Alfred Hitchcock Tweet? These great producers and directors brought suspense and irony to the popular medium of the time; television. How did their work shape the minds of the young people of the time who would grow up to create "our" Internet?

From http://sxsw.com/node/4822

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