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This week Jonathan works through some ideas relating to the potential for “time travel” through the ability to live within memory bubbles thanks to curated content, persistent nostalgia thanks to certain business strategies, and the unexpected staying power of dead celebrities thanks to new fan work and the use of CGI.
Peter Sellers as Chance the Gardener tending to his Master’s house in the film Being There (1979). 
Eli Pariser discusses his concept of Filter Bubbles. 
TV cast reunions are much more commonplace these days. Here, the cast of Taxi reunites in 2016 to celebrate TV director James Burrows. 
A wonderful phrase to describe how cheap and easy engaging with nostalgia has become. 
Turner Classic Movies specialized in cultivating a culture who enjoys inhabiting a very particular, long-ago era of U.S. film making. Though, in recent years, they’ve attempted to expand their offerings. 
Professional fans continue the Batman TV show story lines with brand-new comic book adventures. 
Ghostbusters: Afterlife, much like Star War: The Force Awakens, wears its nostalgic fan service on its sleeve. 
Fred Astaire dances with a Dirt Devil vacuum from 1997. A controversial commercial, it now reads as rudimentary compared with how we revive the dead in films using CGI today. 
Star Wars Rogue One brought two actors back from the grave via CGI. Their careers didn’t have to end I guess.
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