This critique is similar to the arguments against early web giants like Google, Facebook, Twitter and TikTok - except the concern is with the bastardization of the written word, not oral speech. Socrates thought literacy would corrupt the education system and was bastardization of the art of oral speech. Are technical tools good for us? Or is the employment of technology akin to playing with a dark magic wrought with unintended consequences? Zoë Kravitz stars as Angela Childs in Kimi, a thriller about the horrors of an Alexa-like technology.īefore the birth of Christ and the start of the common era, Socrates in Plato’s Phaedo was setting off the alarm bells about the new technology of a visual alphabet and the written word. CAM (2018) is an internet horror movie about a camgirl released by Netflix.Īlthough internet horror movies feel new, the underlying narrative structure taps into timeless concerns about humanity’s uneasy relationship with technology. So cinema is a new art form, but movies about the internet are a radically new cultural artifact. In the year 2000, Hollywood wasn’t even a century old!? The first website launched in August 6, 1991.

The world is about five billion years old. You can hear him every week on The B-Movies Podcast and Canceled Too Soon, and watch him on the weekly YouTube series Most Craved, Rapid Reviews and What the Flick. William Bibbiani (everyone calls him ‘Bibbs’) is Crave’s film content editor and critic. Was 1991 one of the great years for movies, or one of the worst? You’ll find out in The B-Movies Podcast #281: The Best Movies of 1991! Follow the show on Twitter at follow your hosts at and of course, subscribe to The B-Movies Podcast on iTunes so you don’t miss a single, solitary episode of movie news, reviews, commentary tracks, exclusive interviews and more!

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