MA-MA-MAXIMUM EXPOSURE

摘要

Pity max headroom. We think of him today as an empty-headed relic of the 1980s-if we think of him at all. Well, allowme to refresh your Memorex: Max was a computer-enhanced "talking head" with a freakishly sculpted scalp, chronic stutter, and a knack for one-liners. Though he spent most of the late '80s hawking New Coke ("C-c-c-catch the wave!"), Max was more than a Spuds MacKenzie-style spokes-gimmick. His creators designed him as high satire and dark prophecy. In 1987, he starred in a landmark cyberpunk series on ABC, a media-spoofing sci-fi adventure set in a dystopia that exists "twenty minutes into the future."