On the internet, she discovers all of the bad things that we're quite naive about today. In the show, a young girl named "Lain" decides to get on the internet because a girl she walked home with once committed suicide. That's right - Madman was pessimistic, so they were able to make a hit. "Serial Experiments Lain" weaves itself into the tapestry of the Web's development because Madman (the show's production house) didn't have the rose-colored glasses everyone else had. Now we know that chans are only good for furry propaganda and the human waste called the " hivemind."īut That Didn't Actually Help Me Understand Before any were actually invented, folks would have said that nothing could be better for advancing knowledge than a group of anonymous users writing on a shared bulletin board. Nowhere is this more evident than in the chans. The grandiose projections were nothing but useless conjecture because they ignored the unpleasant underbelly of newsgroups, which would only be magnified by graphics and real-time communications into the downright degenerate realm of the modern internet. In 2010, cable companies have yet to deliver decent and egalitarian internet service (which was a prediction in The Road Ahead), and Facebook and smartphones are the closest things to a global network dense with easy access to all of one's own personal information. In hindsight, the optimism of the early nineties was generally unwarranted. It was a rosy world which Bill Gates predicted in The Road Ahead, a world of instant and customizable content being shipped from person to person everywhere. It held exciting possibilities and many technology columnists and academic types made great promises of a future ability for all people to connect and grow. In the early days of home computing, before Encyclopædia Dramatica, 4chan, or Satan's lair had been invented, the internet was a fresh, new thing which wasn't even used by most people and couldn't be found in the nearest Starbucks. 4 Madhouse? More like Arthouse, eh? Eh?.
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3 This is The Crazy Part, Kind of Like Every Episode of Code Geass.2 But That Didn't Actually Help Me Understand.