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Todd Rundgren - Interactive Musician March 26, 1996. "I got into interactivity around five years ago. In fact, I'd been leading a double life for a while--both performing and producing audio and video." From: CNET |
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Cyber Cafe - Live Reports! April 26, 1996. KALAPAKI BEACH, KAUAI, HAWAII- Rundgren said, in the simplest terms, interactivity can be expressed as the TV remote control. A person can be quite content to observe, in a linear sense, what's on TV until he or she gets bored. Then the interactive search for something else interesting begins... From:Film Kauai |
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| Say Aloha to Todd Rundgren May 15, 1996. "It used to be that all the artists who got burned out in the city moved here," Rundgren said. "But Marin is no longer populated by artists. It's full of money managers and venture capitalists who drive their Lexuses with one hand. ... It's become the land of nouveau mansions." From:Jam Music |
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A Conversation with Todd Rundgren May 16, 1996. "Right now, we are moving away a disc based model to a direct-to-home delivery model. In other words, I am working to create systems that will allow people to listen to as much or as little of my music or the other aspects of the presentation as they want without actually having to go out and buy a disc." From: Tony Thomas' Web World |
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| Ill Humor June 22, 1996. Todd Rundgren describes the World Wide Web as being "like a strip mall." Expanding on this image, he continues, "It's like riding along a Dallas freeway where there's nothing but fucking billboards." From: Salon Magazine |
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| The Individualist October 17, 1996. " Yeah, so HyperCard was the same thing. But the component software concepts that I had, that were contemporaneous I guess with HyperCard, involved no scripting at all -- involved simply graphical objects that novice users could connect together into new functional elements. And, oddly enough, programming is sort of moving that way now." From: The Marc Canter Show |
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| Prepare for the Next Revolution In Music Delivery November 1996. "I predict sales of disc-based media will level off five years from now, then start to drop. There's still a limit to the amount of stuff they can cram onto that little silver platter. There are no limits with electronic distribution." From: WINDOWS Magazine |
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Todd Man Out November 28, 1996. "What I would like to do first of all," he begins, "is to eliminate most of the middlemen between me and my audience. And the Web allows me to do that." From: Westword |
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