Wednesday 19 May 2010

Warhol's Prophecy

The remarkably perspicacious Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987), predicting society's demise into shallow obsessions with consumerism, fame and the materialistic, inadvertently coined a new phrase which would live on in our vernacular 40 years later ...
"In the future, everybody will be world-famous for 15 minutes".
... a spookily accurate prediction!

2 comments:

  1. With what appears in the magazines now, it's what they are doing to make them famous for those 15 minutes that worries me.

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