A Joke about the Technopoly We Live In

Bill Gates is trying to make text (from books, magazines, pieces of paper) more interesting by creating a device that can generate video from strings of text.

http://www.geekwire.com/2013/gates-myhrvold-crazy-idea-autogenerating-video-text/

The news earned this set of responses:


johncdvorak

This is ludicrous. Next: turning farts into text then into video.