The reading Expanded Cinema, as far as the parts I could understand, was fairly interesting, and seems to take a liking to Tran-humanism. For those who don't know, Tran-humanism is the idea of mankind achieving its final evolutionary stage via technology, things like cybernetics and technology taking a metaphysical transcendence, and the author seem to be writing that mankind is heading into this direction. The only real difference is that the writer took an artistic spin on this idea, asking what new art man was going to make when it achieve the final technological evolution, and I personally found that fascinating due to my affinity towards sic-fi.
As for Culture: Intercom, its always fun to hear a predecessor predicting a hopeful, but naive, image of what the internet was going to do for mankind. Of course with hine-sight the internet wasn't quite the great unifier people were saying it was going to be, but it still has its moments, namely people collaborating with other people on other sides of the planet to create something special with the internet being the medium for all this.
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