“I bought a bourgeois house in the Hollywood hills/With a truckload of hundred thousand dollar bills/Man came by to hook up my cable TV/We settled in for the night my baby and me/We switched ’round and ’round ’til half-past dawn /There was fifty-seven channels and nothin’ on.”
Bruce Springsteen – 57 Channels (and nothin’ on)
As pointed out by Bruce Springsteen a while back, choice is not necessarily a good thing. This article from Admap reflects on how the ability to limit choice is now a luxury - witness the ascent of PVRs, for example.
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