We've heard this little scene, we've heard it many times. People fighting over little things and wasting precious time. They might be better off ... I think ... the way it seems to me. Making up their own shows, which might be better than T.V.
--Found A Job, Talking Heads from "More Songs About Buildings and Food".
So yes.
Once a month we go see a movie.
A few times a week we watch a Netflix.
Every now and then we turn our favorite TV show.
But almost every other waking hour we're tuning in, turning on and signing up for web products and information, or multi-player gaming until 4 in the morning.
We're already entertaining ourselves, with ourselves.
As McLuhan said, he never predicts the future...he just looks around at what is happening in the present. Right now, most of our time is spent in our own TV show...on the web.
I think it's inevitable that textbooks will all eventually be electroni and the service from Amazon looks interesting.
I have a Kobo and one of the things I miss when I read a book for class on it is that I can't highlight or make notes. I would love for there to be a device that will allow me to highlight, earmark pages, and write comments in the margins of ebooks.
Hi Kim, I agree mobile will be the platform of choice, but I would define a mobile device much broader - e.g. a 4G iPad would be great for watching full-screen video. But several things need to evolve for this to be widely available and used!
is that infrastructure providers are going to operate more on a basis of throttling people's usage than by building up their networks to provide the bandwidth people want -- and you can bet that things like ads are going to be the thing least throttled.
mtechie, maybe someday Internet access will feel like it's part of basic utilities, but I think that'll only happen when stable broadband access reaches most remote rural areas. Until then, the Internet will be but a privilege for those who are in the right location and who can pay for it.
Maybe that means ISPs should come up with a different package for video consumers, in the same way that cellular phone companies can have a package for heavy SMS users and another one for people who call a lot (at least those packages exist where I am).
Mtechie, I agree with you especially on the sound ads. I still believe no website should ever for any reason have autoplay sound especially that without turn off option. Forcing you to mute your own system.
I think mobile will be the platform of choice for many purposes, but not for watching movies or TV shows of visual appeal from drama to sports (news, sure). The trend for movies and sports in particular has been toward ever bigger, ever more HD screens. I don't want to watch baseball on a mobile device.
Possibilities are opening up even in education. This isn't exactly a streaming entertainment service but Amazon recently launched Kindle textbook rentals. There have been rumors of digital textbooks replacing paper books for years. I don't know if thier first rental structure is the best but it's certainly an interesting offering. What do you think?
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