Opened in 2004, it is run by a former Warsaw nightclub impresario, and, within the limits of current technology, it is hard to imagine a more effectively realized multimedia museum.
Esther Dyson, the impresario behind PC Forum, introduced Zuckerberg as "the technology entrepreneur of the year," which prompted the investor sitting next to me to whisper, "I hear that he was offered seven hundred and fifty million dollars by News Corporation, and he turned it down".
That legendary RS article, "Spacewar: Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums", is an example of how Brand, the impresario of the counterculture, was instrumental in transforming attitudes towards technology and shaping our digital culture.
For example, Benjamin notes the influence on Baudelaire of new technologies such as photography, and writes that "Baudelaire was his own impresario," an artist who knew that his poems were commodities even before they were done.
Hip hop impresario Dr. Dre understood urban culture better than anyone else, knowing that for young urban consumers, technology is more than a tool, it's also a fashion statement.
Serge Diaghilev was an impresario.
« Happy birthday to poetry impresario Mike Peich!
A wrestling impresario talks Small Business Administration.
But I did have the impresario gene.
