Howard Rheingold says:
In 1976, Jim Neidhardt put one of the first Sony Portapaks in a backpack and used a telephoto lens. Equipped with a radiomike, I roamed the streets of the San Francisco Bay Area, posing as Howard K. Martian, extraterrestrial anthropologist. Episodes were cablecast in the earliest days of public access cable TV.I've rescued a few episodes from deteriorating 30 year old videotape and repackaged them for digital distribution. For the next few weeks, episodes on my vlog will show me racing a cable car, interrogating a primitive computer, and interviewing baffled citizens on the streets of San Francisco.