Monday, Apr. 17, 2000
Propaganda in The Internet Age
By Val Castronovo, Matthew Cooper, Lina Lofaro, Desa Philadelphia, Hope Reeves, Elizabeth Rudulph, Alain Sanders and Josh Tyrangie
"There's just a massive education program that's needed here." --Carey Sherman, Recording Industry Association of America senior executive V.P., on the CD copying enabled by some websites
Mass-education programs have a bad rap from history. It doesn't always have to mean gulags. It can mean fun. What if today's computer-company maxims were propagated with the posters of mid-century? The wags at Modern Humorist (at www.modernhumorist.com this spring) plan to distribute these posters throughout Silicon Valley.