Cisco systems...

[Alan McKendree]

> From: Kevin and Tania O'Neal <kevinandt at gmavt.net>
> Date: December 27, 2006 10:21:52 PM CST
>
> New Who commercial out....
> Just spotted on CNN a commercial for Cisco Systems....with BO'R as  
> the sound track.

Here's my writeup on it:

> From: Alan McKendree <amck at thenetdr.com>
> Date: October 10, 2006 9:43:17 PM CDT
>
> Wow -- I just saw an awesome commercial that used Baba for the  
> soundtrack non-stop through the whole thing....  It might have been  
> 30 seconds, it might have been 60, but the whole thing was about  
> current technological connectedness..."Welcome to the world" where  
> we can subscribe to people, not magazines, where your cellphone can  
> be scanned as a plane ticket, where we can carry people around with  
> us and our favorite sports teams can follow us anywhere we go,  
> where "body language is business language", etc etc.  All  
> accompanied by video bouncing all over the world, from boardrooms  
> to little kids in the streets, from the Taj Mahal to suburban  
> living rooms...as I was watching it I thought, "Forget Claritin and  
> Nissan...This is a commercial for the Grid itself" -- and it was  
> using a very good edit of Baba as the soundtrack throughout.  And  
> at the end it just showed the Cisco logo and slogan.  If we could  
> have seen this commercial in the '70s it would have fit right in as  
> Pete's fantastic fever-dream of what The Grid could evolve into --  
> and did.  The only thing missing is the virtual-reality suits.

Cheers,
Alan McKendree
"the average Texan...carries not just a gun but a SHOTGUN."  --Pete  
Townshend, 1967