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Quotes by David Bohrman

“The party stuff was interesting, but what lasted is that we defined a new form of participatory programming that fused TV and internet. Thats what I brought back with me when I returned.”

“It worked, and that taught us something about spatial display of information -- its possible to do things that arent linear.”

“The first thing that goes wrong in TV is always sound. Figuring out how to make the right blend of sound to go back into the computer, sorting out which video source is displayed with sound -- those were challenges. Over time, we figured out how to blend environments without feedback or delay.”

“Were trying to create something new. Something that is not television but uses a little bit of television and a lot of the Internet; something that couldnt exist on television.”

“Its an event that a lot of people cant participate in. You cant get in here if you are just a regular person. But with the enabling power of the Internet, you can feel it, you can touch it, you can get a sense of what it feels like.”

“I think we will get a lot of interest, but I dont think the standard will be the number of people. Its going to be what the experience is, and hopefully a fair amount of people will come to see it.”

“I basically fired my entire staff today.”