A Futurist, You Might Say
Not only was Bowie considered to be ahead of his time when it came to his music, but some say that he seemed to foresee the rise of the internet. In 1999, he discussed the new invention known as the “worldwide web” with Jeremy Paxman of the BBC. The host suggested that the internet’s potential was being “hugely exaggerated.”
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But Bowie quickly made it clear that he didn’t agree with him. He said how he was really embracing the idea “that there’s a new demystification process between the artist and the audience.” The way he put it, the “interplay between the user and the provider” will become so compatible that “it’s going to crush our ideas of what mediums are all about.”