The Economist special report on television
“Report: 90% of waking hours spent staring at glowing rectangles,” read a headline in the Onion, a satirical newspaper, last year. The joke contains a profound truth. Distinctions between glowing and rectangular television sets, computers and mobile phones are gradually disappearing. Televisions have long doubled as monitors for video-game consoles. More recently they became digital radios. Now they are turning into gateways to the internet. People who buy high-end televisions this year will discover that their new toys can obtain all sorts of things, from stock quotes to weather forecasts. http://www.economist.com/node/15980859?story_id=15980859