In 1985, three British writers, George Stone, Annabel Jankel, and Rocky Morton created Max Headroom, a glitching, stuttering synthetic personality derived from a human template for the TV show Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future. They imagined him as satire—a distorted reflection of the media culture shaped by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, where television no longer felt like just a channel, but an all-encompassing atmosphere. Wrappe…