Influences

Young people today remember Rosie the robot from “The Jetsons”, but they have no idea who Hazel was.

Several students I asked today were quite familiar with Jean-Luc Picard, but they’d never heard of Jean-Luc Godard.

Quite often in pop culture, one sees an homage to a hyper-famous person or character of the day, a reference so obvious at the time that it would never occur to anyone to question it.

But then time moves on, first in years and then in decades, and the original influence becomes lost to future generations. The only thing that is handed down is the echo.

It would be interesting to compile a book of such influences, those once timely homages to long lost cultural icons, now echoing mysteriously through the corridors of time.