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Pop Cultural Precursors's avatar

I have been marinating in tech news all morning, and initially misread this. "Huh, I didn't know Coke did a commercial with 'weird A.I.' in the 80s, they were really ahead of their time."

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Ha! I think if they could have, they would have references it into one these commercials. I hadn't though about it, but technology is surprisingly absent from this entire series of advertising. I would guess if it had been 2 or 3 years earlier, we would have gotten a brief scene in an arcade.

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Maybe they were avoiding tech references to keep their powder dry for the Max headroom ads the following year...

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