IN the news - Life before Segway

[Hobbes]

Finally, the MSM takes proper notice: "Do you remember life before Segway?"

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/in_the_know_do_you_remember_life

[pam]

Well, I'm not sure I'd call The Onion MSM, but they do have a very irreverent (and sometimes funny) approach to life!
Pam

[quade]

I'm not exactly certain I'd call this piece "news" either. Satire perhaps, but certainly not news.

[JohnM]

It's certainly not news here.
We discussed this piece 10 months ago.
http://forums.segwaychat.com/showthread.php?t=15265

[Hobbes]

The better the mimic, the better the satire....

[quade]

The better the mimic, the better the satire....

I dunno.

A parrot can mimic quite well, but hardly is capable of adding satiric twists.

Then again, sometimes the most embarrassing thing you can do to a person is simply quote them. :)

[Hobbes]

I did a couple of searches and didn't find a reference, before posting it.

I thought it was funny and the taget of the satire doesn't bother me at all. They are satirizing the hype, not the device.

I feel much the same way every time I read the lingo about the next great piece of "collaborative software" and how it will change business or culture or the world. It is hard to replicate the Gutenberg press.

As much as I use and appreciate the Segway, it is a tool that is good at what it does, not at what it means.

[Hobbes]

I dunno.

A parrot can mimic quite well, but hardly is capable of adding satiric twists.

Then again, sometimes the most embarrassing thing you can do to a person is simply quote them. :)

To illustrate what I meant: the fake commercials at the beginning of SNL are effective satire because they replicate the production values, style and ernestness of real marketing pieces.