shifting attention
… online poll of consumers’ digital media and entertainment habits, sponsored by IBM, showed that more people are spending more time Web surfing than channel hopping of late…
– informationweek, Internet’s Killing The TV Star
that sentence says a lot about today’s generation.
hmmm. i sound old.
most of everyone is connected in some way or another. wired. wireless. tv is a large part of the home entertainment scene and i think it would still be there for some time. the method of delivery may be different in the coming years though.
everything digital goes through the ever-present internet. why not television programs? radio is into it already — a bit choppy at times but its there. you can even view the local soap opera on your mobile phone.
eventually, there would be enough bandwidth and processing power to saturate everyone’s hunger and when that happens you’ll get to see your favorite television programs on your large screen monitor along with the filtered vid-mails for the hour — all with advertising, of course.
