OT: merging of technologies in media

[SPJ]

It used to be newspaper, extra extra.

Then came the radio.

Then the TV.

Then the cable and satellite tv.

Then the internet.

Now they are merging again.

You get your phone services via cable internet. You get your customized TV casts via internet.

AOL is starting to do all these.

What do you think?

good or bad?

[SPJ]

The other trend is the media on the go.

IPod new version may carry 1000 songs, text, pictures etc.

Mobile internet via cell phone etc.

[Yum Cha]

Future Shock.

Change becomes so common and rampant that it becomes a static concept.

Personally, me, my three wives, our goats, chickens, veggie patch and solar powered modified Commodore 64 are just happy the way we are.



"Get away from that Wheelbarrow Eugene, you don't know nothing 'bout machinery."

[SPJ]

Yes. Everything is now digitized.

We used to have microfilms of texts and images in the archives of the libraries.

Now everything printed in papers can be scanned into a disk. the text, video, audio, too.

Burn the CD or DVD.

Take the picture with a Digi cam or digi camcorder etc.

CD and dvd players took the place of audio and video tapes and recorders.

Living in the digital world or the world of 0 and 1.

[fa_jing]

I just got DSL, only $15 a month -- I just had to sign up for auto-deduct on my phone bill from my bank account in order to get the deal. Billing is a big headache, so it makes sense.

[Mel]

I don't mind so much the merging of technologies in the media. What scares me is that the media is more and more becoming owned by a small handful of people (and will eventually owned by one group only) who feed us what tidbits they want us to see and hide the rest.