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... Did Borland try copyrighting (not trademarking) lower case "d" back in the 80s?

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Seriously, go back and watch it now. I just did.

... Media corporations controlling politics, AI-generated personalities replacing humans, information overload, advertising infecting everything, cynical news culture, society numbed by nonstop entertainment... it was basically predicting the internet age before most people even owned a VCR.

And Matt Frewer absolutely crushed that role. The stuttering delivery could have been a gimmick, but instead it became iconic. The show had this weird cyberpunk satire vibe that somehow felt goofy and genuinely unsettling at the same time.

Also worth giving a shout out to Charles Rocket, who was perfect in that slick corporate-media-world role, and Chris Young as Bryce Lynch, the brilliant socially awkward hacker kid before Hollywood turned that archetype into a cliché. Bryce honestly felt more authentic than most “genius hacker” characters that came decades later. (Best line from Bryce IMHO: "there's no such thing as a failed experiment, there's just more data.")

It’s one of those shows that looked bizarre in the 80s but feels uncomfortably plausible now.