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"Danny calls a TV a TV but he also calls a computer monitor a TV. Which got me thinking. When I think about computers on television, I think about those stories that climax when the hero cleverly asks 'Why?' and basically gives the evil computer a nervous breakdown, complete with sparks and smoke. But television on computers is actually matter [sic] of almost insidious infiltration, blending in so smoothly that you hardly notice that a takeover is taking place."—Excerpt from October 15, 1998 email from mediaprof@cuny.edu to nosmot@syr.edu, found in Syracuse University office on October 17, 1998


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