Yesterday, we uploaded information on Cirencester Roman Ampitheatre: http://www.picturetheuk.com/uk-tourism/attraction/roman-amphitheatre-843.html. One of the mental notes when doing so was, ‘what happened there, was it a Colosseum in Rome mini-me?’ Did they fight to the death for entertainment?
There’s a great quote from the writer Kurt Vonnegut: ‘One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.’
Plus ca change.
Entrepreneurs, new media journalists, VCs (and other people who fund business ventures) are an excitable bunch: http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/05/22/the-history-of-media-tells-us-the-web-will-change-the-world-profoundly/ The world’s being re-shaped, made new, it’s all change, the future will be unrecoginisable they say and yet plus ca change. The more it changes, the more we seem to stay the same.
(’There is no new thing under the sun’, Ecclesiastes, The King James Version of the Bible).
