The Internet but not as we know it: life online in China, Cuba, India and Russia
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From what I understand of the history of the motion picture, the earliest directors basically filmed stage plays. It wasn't until directors like Griffith and Eisenstein edited movies in new ways -- creating a film grammar that we take for granted today -- that the medium reached its full potential.
We're a couple of decades into the Web, but I think we haven't yet found our Griffith and Eisenstein.