The Rust Of Broadcasting

A friend of mine who works in the post-industrial design space told me once of a meeting he was called to with a terrestrial network television broadcaster. He does lots of interesting work with lots of interesting people, in a range of digital and postdigital fields. But he was really kind of antsy about this meeting. He said to me: "Television? Broadcasting? That's, like aerials and shit. Pylons and towers. Huge fucking chunks of rusting metal." The strong implication was that he...