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Jack Schulze on pixel scarcity

Pixels used to be rare. When I grew up in London there were only four TV channels, and some of them stopped broadcasting for long periods of the day. Huge antennas across the country would spew out vasts quantities of radio in order to fill domed glowing screens in houses, just in case you happened to be at home in front of them. The means of production were also rare — the equipment, people, and knowledge required to make video — all these things limited the making of visual media to a tiny population.



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