Just some random bullshit,brekinMay 2 2007, 00:17:52 UTC
I pulled up a video of a Charlie Rose show, and boom it loaded and it was like I was watching it on television, yeah I know I'm a little behind the curve, write it off as having to work with them everyday and you can see why I would come to despise computers. But the point is we can now watch television on computers, and since 95% of television is a waste of time and 95% of the internet is a waste of time we now have something approaching, I'm still running the numbers, something more then %100 a waste of time. There is always going to be something to watch from now on, and it won't even fit into a greater narrative either, just bits, which I guess will coalesce into the people who watch them, and we will be able to judge what they as the product represent, I imagine something along the lines of Monty Python quippers and people who explain SNL skits that are either completely self-evident, or too dumb to talk about, but these will be things that most people won't have a general frame of reference. See if you exploit media, for your own ends, research, entertainment, etc then your somewhat in control, but if you just coast or it's something you "just do" then it's going to mold you. I think everybody when they were younger hand over their brain to television for a short or long while, but it wasn't infinite them, it is now. It may not give it back. I imagine hoboes and depression era children adrift on the information superhighway, I've seen homeless guys with laptops/playstations and one night driving home off to the side in a wooded/naturalistic part of a parking lot, I saw a neaderthal Rush Limbaugh looking guy sitting on a rock head down looking at his laptop as the screen illuminated his dufus expression in the dark of night. I think it's going to be like how all the education type people believe a new technology is going to save the world, Gramophones in Schools! Radios! Televised classes! etc. And then they realize they need to backtrack and pull them out of classrooms like big hoary ticks. The internet's all the same, but it's not, I go to CNN everyday excepting some News, but nothings happening that's not already been set in motion. So to sum up, the internet is cool and seems like a great idea, but can be carried to far, like rollerblading, which also showed great promise, but converting from a car economy to a rollerblading economy had many pitfalls, the major one being roads would actually have to be widened with everyone sticking their elbows out like chickens line dancing.
I think it's going to be like how all the education type people believe a new technology is going to save the world, Gramophones in Schools! Radios! Televised classes! etc. And then they realize they need to backtrack and pull them out of classrooms like big hoary ticks. The internet's all the same, but it's not, I go to CNN everyday excepting some News, but nothings happening that's not already been set in motion.
So to sum up, the internet is cool and seems like a great idea, but can be carried to far, like rollerblading, which also showed great promise, but converting from a car economy to a rollerblading economy had many pitfalls, the major one being roads would actually have to be widened with everyone sticking their elbows out like chickens line dancing.
Reply
Leave a comment