The TV Set becomes the Computer
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Table of contents
1 Description: 2 Enablers:
3 Inhibitors:
4 Paradigms:
5 Experts:
6 Timing:
7 Web Resources:
Description:
George Gilder predicted in his book 'The End of Television' that televisions and home computers would soon be replaced by teleputers that combine both functions. Whatever the prediction, the TV set is more likely to become a computer than the other way around, that is television emigrating to a computer screen. Read on to find out why this is a real possibility.
Enablers:
-The market for home-based TV is over twice as large as that of home-based computing (Kerckhove, D.)
- Unlike computers, TV is undeniably "user-friendly"
- The market for home-based TV is over twice as large as that of home-based computing (Kerckhove, D.)
- The TV network is already connected (whether it be by free airway or via dish/cable) but many times computers require modems, telephone/ADSL lines and significant patience and high personal motivation to make an internet connection work
- Video images appear distorted and in low resolution in programs like "QuickTime" or in "streaming video" formate: (VLDTV) TV is definitely going digital
- Bill Gates owns the business, including the concept of Web-TV
Inhibitors:
Paradigms:
A paradigm is a set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality for the community that shares them, especially in an intellectual discipline.
Experts: Sources for additional information about this driving force.
Timing: Dates for key milestones in the development of the driving force.
Web Resources:
by Mari Smith