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Max Headroom is the godfather of AI influencers

Summary by Fast Company
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…

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Fast Company broke the news in New York, United States on Monday, June 1, 2026.
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