Newteevee: Scott Kirsner, a journalist who just released a book called Inventing the Movies about technology’s affect on Hollywood, told us this week that he thinks YouTube will is a more influential innovation than television. In his review of movie history, from Smell-O-Vision to digital filming, Kirsner found an “epic battle” between technology and the status quo, with each generation’s doom and gloom predictions — from the likes of Thomas Edison, George Eastman, Jack Valenti, and Sumner Redstone — failing to come to fruition.

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