{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Max Headroom: the definitive history of the 1980s digital icon.\nOn Thursday, April 4th, 1985, a blast of dystopian satire hit...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/160255289818/", "html": "<p><a href=\"https://theverge.tumblr.com/post/115310339601/max-headroom-the-definitive-history-of-the-1980s\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">theverge</a>:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>\n<a href=\"http://www.theverge.com/2015/4/2/8285139/max-headroom-oral-history-80s-cyberpunk-interview?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=tumblr&amp;utm_campaign=theverge\" target=\"_blank\">Max Headroom: the definitive history of the 1980s digital icon</a>.</h2>\n<blockquote>On Thursday, April 4th, 1985, a blast of dystopian satire hit the UK airwaves. Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future was a snarky take on media and corporate greed, told through the eyes of investigative journalist Edison Carter (Matt Frewer) and his computer-generated alter-ego: an artificial intelligence named Max Headroom.<br/>Max became a singular \u201880s pop culture phenomenon that represented everything wonderful and horrible about the decade. Max hosted music video shows; Max interviewed celebrities; Max hawked New Coke; Max Headroom became US network television\u2019s very first cyberpunk series. Max was inescapable \u2014 and then almost just as quickly as he had appeared, he was gone.<br/>Thirty years after the premiere, I spoke with the writers, directors, producers, actors, make-up artists, and network executives that helped bring Max Headroom to life. And it all began, like so many things in the \u201880s, with music videos.</blockquote>\n</blockquote>\n<img src=\"/media/tumblr_nm6wapHozu1r3kmkso1_500_932d5864c132.gif\" />\n<img src=\"/media/tumblr_nm6wapHozu1r3kmkso3_400_86b639a0dbb2.png\" />\n<img src=\"/media/tumblr_nm6wapHozu1r3kmkso8_400_998a63f7c9a4.jpg\" />\n<img src=\"/media/tumblr_nm6wapHozu1r3kmkso4_1280_5b6586dc168c.jpg\" />\n<img src=\"/media/tumblr_nm6wapHozu1r3kmkso5_1280_ee54c77d36a8.jpg\" />\n<img src=\"/media/tumblr_nm6wapHozu1r3kmkso2_1280_9bc0eec86402.jpg\" />\n<img src=\"/media/tumblr_nm6wapHozu1r3kmkso6_1280_7efd2718f6aa.png\" />", "thumbnail_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/media/tumblr_nm6wapHozu1r3kmkso1_500_932d5864c132.gif", "thumbnail_width": 480, "thumbnail_height": 368}