Stanley Kubrick describing Twitter
Sometimes a passage in a book stands out at me, even though I’ve read it many times before. This, from today, is a classic example of just that:
“I don’t think the verb “twittering” seems right. We must decide how these fellows talk.”
Stanley Kubrick
pp48, The Lost Worlds of 2001, Arthur C Clarke.
So what did Kubrick know that we didn’t? And have we got ourselves a “Mineshaft Gap 2.0″ between the tweets and the, ehrm, tweezers?
April 10, 2008; Twitters, Web 2.0 (Observations);
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