Friday in 1994
You don’t need to be a fan of the series 24 to get the joke here.
I watched it and it immediately made me think that there is a kind of ethnographic method here, perhaps a class assignment: take a familiar case from the contemporary setting and explore it by setting it back 15 years. Change everything you can think of, what stays the same and what makes a difference? Could be a useful way to pick apart the difference technology makes. Or perhaps not, since as EB White says: “Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog; nobody learns anything and the frog dies of it.”
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This is an interesting idea — but I wonder if students would be able to do this effectively — the humor in the video and the feasibility of doing the assignment depend on the viewer/student’s familiarity with the technological world of 1994.
Wow, pretty funny. Watching that makes me feel old, and I really have no right to feel old yet.