Patrick Stewart Explains Why the Internet Is Freaking Amazing

By Sunday May 15, 2011



26 Comments
  1. Derek says:
    5/15/2011 at 7:27 am

    Patrick: The internet is freaking amazing because you can buy cakes with the images of women going to the bathroom!

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  2. Skippy says:
    5/15/2011 at 9:06 am

    Is it just me or does he seem to be getting old?

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  3. Number Three says:
    5/15/2011 at 10:01 am

    @#1 Make it so.

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  4. bobbo, PUKES aren't the only ones lying all the time says:
    5/15/2011 at 10:16 am

    I’ll bet he doesn’t know you can send audio/video email. Ha, ha.

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  5. What? says:
    5/15/2011 at 10:49 am

    Art is something that tickles emotion.

    Actors are people who tickle emotion.

    I feel like that was an advertisement for the Internet. “Turn me on now” (R) could be his final catchphrase for the ad.

    He conveyed a tremoundous excitement for the possibilities of the Internet. Yet it felt superficial.

    I’m sure he’s a great guy, and I’m over analyzing this.

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  6. bobbo, PUKES aren't the only ones lying all the time says:
    5/15/2011 at 11:09 am

    #5–What==Bingo. Why didn’t the lighting alone scream this obvious fact to me???

    It used to be “Hidden Persuaders.” Now, they are right out there in the open.

    Ahhh, for the innocent days of yore when the personal recollections of life of famous techie scify programs weren’t totally scripted and filmed in a studio?

    Well done.

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  7. Uncle Patso says:
    5/15/2011 at 11:23 am

    Well of course it was shot in a studio — it’s part of an interview for a TV program. Scripted? I doubt it — the iPhone love seemed genuine. (Yes, I know he’s an actor.)

    Reminds me of the ZDTV/TechTV days when they would send their people to movie/TV program press junkets to interview actors, etc.

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  8. billabong says:
    5/15/2011 at 2:29 pm

    Games scare me.I spend between 40 and 50 hours a week in front of various screens computer,t.v.,and work related.I wouldn’t have time to eat if I added games to the mix.

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  9. Publius says:
    5/15/2011 at 2:34 pm

    PHone sucks
    Letters suck
    Email: not so bad

    pretty much!

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  10. So what says:
    5/15/2011 at 2:36 pm

    #5 The internet is the epitome of superficial. What I an trying to imagine is captain picard talking smack while gaming. Go ahead put in you favorite game put on the head phones and think about it.

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  11. msbpodcast says:
    5/15/2011 at 4:10 pm

    In #10 So what said: The internet is the epitome of superficial.

    No the internet in a N:M network.

    Its like a sewer system; what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.

    You are the epitome of superficial.

    Strike that!

    Anything by bobbo <whatevertefuckhewrote> is the epitome of superficial.

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  12. MikeN says:
    5/15/2011 at 9:40 pm

    He was the worst thing that ever happened to scifi.

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  13. The Watcher says:
    5/15/2011 at 10:14 pm

    billabong:

    We’re allowed to eat?

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  14. John C Dvorak says:
    5/15/2011 at 11:09 pm

    Tweeting is NOT reducing “life” to 140 characters. Give me a break.

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  15. KD Martin says:
    5/16/2011 at 12:35 am

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  16. Hothr says:
    5/16/2011 at 5:41 am

    Twitter reduces life to 140 characters, like Haiku reduces poetry to 3 lines.

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  17. wirelessg says:
    5/16/2011 at 6:01 am

    We’re becoming more like the Borg everyday.

    Resistance will be futile.

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  18. Marc Perkel says:
    5/16/2011 at 7:47 am

    He is getting older. Star Trek TNG started in 1987. That’s 24 years ago. So he’s going to look a little older in 24 years.

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  19. bobbo, PUKES aren't the only ones lying all the time says:
    5/16/2011 at 9:11 am

    #14–JCD==a most excellent insight. Can life be reduced to any written form?

    I think “Ode to a Grecian Urn” said it best, that such physical representations doth tease us to eternity but that such beauty is a frozen image. In that vein then a twitter might provide an insight, but not a life.

    Yea, verily.

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  20. ubiquitous talking head says:
    5/16/2011 at 10:05 am

    He was the worst thing that ever happened to scifi.

    People who call it “scifi” are the worst thing that ever happend to SF (or Science Fiction. NEVER skiffy.)

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