Frances Valintine
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 7 Jun
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Go on line.
And actually the connection was so slow because I lived on a... It was a rural connection as well.
So... And people...
I cannot believe this because if you think about it, the online shopping for supermarkets is actually a relatively new thing in New Zealand.
But in 1998, I could go online, buy my groceries and get them delivered to me.
And then, because we were the fastest internet in the world at the time, and it was like, so you saved your shopping cart and if you had to add one more thing, you'd like literally hit nappies and...
Watch the time slowly lower, you know, just like, and then you'd be like, okay, do I need anything else?
And then you'd end up buying things you didn't need because you couldn't just to take them out of the shopping cart from last week was too hard.
But it was a time save for me because I could do it at night when the kids were asleep.
And so it was a, and that was also, I was like, okay, so you can do this now.
What will it be like when this gets faster?
And so again, I was starting to imagine.
And so anyhow, with media design school, I started in 97 and then first students in 98, almost same time as I was having a baby, which was kind of crazy.
But again, you make do, you figure it out.
No, and I don't know how I've got that, but as I say, it goes back to patterns.
I see things and I can extrapolate things forward.
That going, oh, if you could do this today, you could do shopping really fast in five years and then in 50 years.
That is the way I see things.
And that was the same with the film industry because if you think about the film industry up until then, it was all very much analogue and film-based and suddenly you had a visionary like Peter Jackson going...
huh, I think I could make this with visual effects.
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