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Technology is almost ready to offer relatively cheap and portable equipment that will enable people to send video re-
portage in sufficient quality from any spot in the world to the Net as well as to classical TV. Big computer manufactures
like IBM, Apple and similar vendors are competing with each other as they announce ever more powerful and sophisticat-
ed laptops capable of coping with editing and compressing digital video. Satellite companies make data terminals faster
and more portable every day. So soon, at least in theory, every Internet user will be move about with highly portable equip-
ment, sending video to the Net. At that moment web portals could actually replace transnational TV networks. Structural
repression embedded into legislative procedures for frequency licenses for TV broadcasting could become a thing of the
forgotten past. Unless of course the TV industry stands against, and stops the development. What TV, what industry?

Walter Benjamin's idea of "philosophical salvage of scraps"
gives us a basis to strategically utilize the prevailing tech-
nology toward a different way to deconstruct the power sys-
tem that the technology supports.

Today's electronic devices consist of modules that soon be-
come inexpensive junks. Given the hybrid potentiality, even
such junks can be redeemed as totally new modules that
could be brought into different contexts and functions. This|
really happened in the Mini-FM micro transmitter.

Mini-FM starting as a Japanese counterpart of the Italian’

and French free radio in the late 70s was also an analogue:
counterpart of the fashionable ‘new media’ in the 80s in
Japan, which were unable to bring its digital ability into full
play yet.

The free radio was free from the exiting state-controlled or)
mass-oriented radios in the 70s. However, they started ab-
sorbing the element of free radio into themselves. In the
90s, the Internet has ended the authentic function of the
free radio.

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Advertising techniques such as “market segmentation” had
preceded the method of narrowcasting and multi-channels.

When Mini-FM found that nobody listened to it, Mini-FM
learned its really radical potential of “micro revolution”.

Radio is also an invisible architecture of airwaves and cre-
ates a ‘public’ art in the post-public age.
The paradox of technology is that it erases *bodiness* and

at the same time revives it. This difference refers to the dif-
ference between “hi-tech” and “low-tech”.

The meaning of ‘low’ of ‘low-tech’ must be inexpensive. It
shouldn't have nothing to do with inferiority of the technol-
ogy.

Inexpensiveness will ultimately refer to non-profit system—
a post capitalist society where profit as “excess of returns
over outlay" alternates itself to an “eternal circulation” of
information. The Informational Capitalism today is the be-
ginning of such a stage and the end form of Capitalism