Patrick Stewart Explains Why the Internet Is Freaking Amazing
Posted by Alex_Pasternack on Tuesday, Feb 16, 2010
Patrick Stewart is the bard of our time, and he sings the body electronic to PBS’s Digital Nation. At a time of serious and justified alarm about how that nation’s getting used by technology (see our interview with the producer), it’s refreshing and actually inspiring to hear the captain of the USS Enterprise extol the virtues of the technologized life—with limits of course. Like hell Picard’s gonna get pwned by the holodeck!
Or Twitter.
I don’t tweet. I’ve never twittered. And, it’s not that I’m resisting it, but I see no reason to have it in my life. To reduce life to… how many?… 140… just seems to me a little bit simplistic. Maybe I like complexity and abstraction too much…. I have a stack of games. I’ve never taken the covers off them, because I feel that if I do, I’m finished.
The next frontier: a one-man show about email, or a collection of stories told by Stewart and his contemporaries (think Branaugh, Walken, Shatner, Reynolds) called “The Google Monologues.” Or: a reality show for Motherboard in which Capt. Picard reviews the hottest new video games. Maybe Dr. Drew would host?
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