These are all digital triumphs.
In 2009, we were engulfed by the purple-green floricultural lusciousness of "Avatar". These are all digital triumphs.
What unites independents is hatred of politicians, which is not the same thing as centrism.Working with angerEven the techno-utopians who talk of reinventing politics are missing the point of such digital triumphs as Barack Obama's White House runs.
The opening montage of Crystal barging into the best movies of the year (getting kissed by George Clooney, racing with a red quiff through Tintin's world) was astonishing, as such digital triumphs always are, but I had the kind of uneasiness that I always experience along with astonishment — a sense that no set of images, no matter how firmly embedded in a given narrative, is inviolable anymore.
The original thinking was that digital books would triumph very soon, and in some quarters this notion has persisted.
There are, to be sure, other holdouts against the supposedly inevitable triumph of digital technology and the Internet.
The expected triumph of digital radio has receded into the future: almost three-quarters of radios sold in Britain are still analogue (digital boosters forgot about all those clock radios and car radios).
It, too, is a triumph of digital artistry and of the dramatic implications of actors' offstage lives, bringing together some of France's great performers, in their own name, who gather for the funeral of a (fictitious) playwright who, via video, addresses them seemingly from beyond and lures them into collaboration with other actors — also via video.
It, too, is a triumph of digital artistry and of the dramatic implications of actors' offstage lives, bringing together some of France's great performers, in their own name, who gather for the funeral of a (fictitious) playwright who, via video, addresses them seemingly from beyond and lures them into collaboration with other actors also via video.
With ever-greater precision (processing speed) and transportability (bandwidth), the triumph of digital was complete.
One could say that the PC itself was the first real triumph of digital repackaging.
