Category: PBS Idea Channel
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PBS Idea Channel explores net neutrality & asks if the Internet should be a public utility
A look at the issues surrounding Net Neutrality from PBS Idea Channel. Personally I would go a step further than making the Internet a public utility. I’d make it an unalienable human right. It may not be as obvious as “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness” and it may not be as essential as…
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Can you make a movie so bad it’s good on purpose?
PBS Idea Channel host Mike Rugnetta argues that you can’t make a movie in the ‘so bad it’s good’ category on purpose. Personally, I think his definition is interesting but a bit too broad. Certainly there are classic film in this category and none of the classics were made that way on purpose. But a film…
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PBS Idea Channel Looks at the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence [Video]
I’ve mentioned in the past that, in the future, there will be no jobs. I don’t just mean “unskilled” jobs and I don’t mean that everyone will be a freelancer. I mean that there will be no jobs. There may be a relative handful of people in senior administrative positions and a handful of people…
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Postmodernism explained using Community (the show)
On PBS Idea Channel‘s video this week they wanted to examine the question ‘Is Community a Postmodern Masterpiece?’. To do that though they had to explain what postmodernism is and they do a pretty decent job of covering it quickly and concisely. Hopefully this will help to keep people from slapping the label on everything…
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Postmodernism explained using Community (the show)
On PBS Idea Channel‘s video this week they wanted to examine the question ‘Is Community a Postmodern Masterpiece?’. To do that though they had to explain what postmodernism is and they do a pretty decent job of covering it quickly and concisely. Hopefully this will help to keep people from slapping the label on everything…
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Does Game of Thrones Owe (Part of) its Success to Piracy
One of the problems with modern interpretation of copyright is discussed in this video: Those who produce media products (books, movies, television shows, music etc.,) want desperately to be a part of the popular culture. However becoming part of the culture, in 2013, almost requires copyright infringement to take place. This includes file sharing, mash…
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Does Game of Thrones Owe (Part of) its Success to Piracy
One of the problems with modern interpretation of copyright is discussed in this video: Those who produce media products (books, movies, television shows, music etc.,) want desperately to be a part of the popular culture. However becoming part of the culture, in 2013, almost requires copyright infringement to take place. This includes file sharing, mash…
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Video: Why We Want the World to End and Why It Isn’t Going To (Yet)
From PBS idea channel explains why the Mayans weren’t “wrong” but there is a breakdown in communication because they Mayans aren’t us and we aren’t the Mayans. The video also explains why the world isn’t going to end until we manage to end it and why we sorta want the world to end.