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Self promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Tuesday, October 4th, 2011 8:33pm PDT - promote requested by original submitter geo321.

Ecclesiastes, 1:9:
What has been is what will be,
and has been done is what will be done;
and there is nothing new under the sun.

Sonnet 59, Shakespeare
If there be nothing new, but that which is
Hath been before, how are our brains beguil'd,
Which labouring for invention bear amiss
The second burthen of a former child.
Oh that record could with a backward look,
Even of five hundred courses of the sun,
Show me your image in some antique book,
Since mind at first in character was done,
That I might see what the old world could say
To this composed wonder of your frame;
Whether we are mended, or where better they,
Or whether revolution be the same.
Oh sure I am the wits of former days,
To subjects worse have given admiring praise.

Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary:
There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.

i agree that everything to some extent is a remix, but a person's first exposure to an idea/concept/whatever... isn't

a lot of this is skillful homage, though, which i think adds a level of thought and depth, rather than cheapening the production. either way, i love this video series.

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@packo indeed, but even those "first exposure" ideas are usually predicated in some great amount of prior knowledge. A man didn't just build a VCR; all the elements of VCR's more or less existed, and were combined to do the task required/inspired. But even then, the idea of recording things existed far beyond VCR's. It is impossibly hard to assign credit for ideas, we transmit and absorb them to freely to know where all ideas we have come from, or the foundation to understand the ideas we "come up with". There is a reason that early man didn't invent cars, and it wasn't because he wasn't creative enough.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'The Matrix, Everything Is A Remix, film history' to 'The Matrix, Everything Is A Remix, film history, Philip K Dick' - edited by Fusionaut