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Here's A Man On The Street Interview From 1979
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Jen Carlson
Published Sep 21, 2015
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This video, recently uploaded to YouTube, was filmed around the streets of NYC in 1979. The filmmaker who uploaded it explains, "I found this collection of outtakes in my archive. I shot these interviews on the streets of New York in the late 70s when I was doing a documentary on the coming of the information age."
Many of the New Yorkers filmed were given keywords to react to: corporations ("they're devious," one man declared), bureaucracy, government, instant communication ("telephone," was one response), and computer. "Computer? Uh...," one man paused, "I'm not really understanding this so you better cancel it."
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Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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