Great quotes

A great quote from Wasko's Hollywood in the Information Age:

"Hollywood has never grasped the importance of new technology. It fought against the talkies, against color, against radio, against television, against cable TV, and, most recently, against the videocassette and home video. Hollywood ended up profiting from all of these new technologies, but only after it tried unsuccessfully to kill them. Hollywood always views a new wawy of doing things as a threat, instead of as an opportunity" (7).

(George Mair, Inside HBO: The Billion Dollar War Between HBO, Hollywood, and the Home Video Revolution, New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1988, p. 13).

Another quote by Jack Valenti:

"Major technical developments in the audiovisual field generally make their initial appearance as esoteric laboratory curiosities, innocuous and benign. But many rapidly metamorphose from cute chicks to voracious vultures. To survive and prosper, our industry has had to develop not only coping skills, but more important, the ability to anticipate and manage change" (8).

Jack Valenti, "Managing Changes in Technology," Variety, 14 January 1987, p. 8.

Kinda makes everything that's going on make sense, huh?