Due to the differences between TV and Computers, I think watching TV always will be associated with stupidity and Computers with intelligence.
Forty years ago , or even 20 years ago there may have been some validity to that viewpoint, but today there is a much greater volume of ignorance and arrogance, if not outright stupidity , on the internet than on TV (stupidity in humans is
constant IMO - within, if not across, racial/cultural subgroups).
And getting back to your original time frame (within 10 years), there will be by then just a single technology. New
technology which reconfigures pixels to greatly reduce the size/weight of displays is well advanced, and soon every cell "phone" will be a fully functional phone/TV, with clear, crisp movie quality images.
When I first heard of this a couple of years ago I was skeptical - who wants to watch movies on a cell phone, I thought. Well, a good deal of what shows up on the internet is now unavailable to me (think Utube) because I live in the wilderness and have only dialup internet access.
I thought you (swedes) did get a few things right in the 40s and 50s.
“And getting back to your original time frame (within 10 years), there will be by then just a single technology. New technology which reconfigures pixels to greatly reduce the size/weight of displays is well advanced, and soon every cell “phone” will be a fully functional phone/TV, with clear, crisp movie quality images.”
- Yes, a lot of people think so.
I guess PC technology will become more and more integrated with TV technology (and cell phone technology).
Whatever the technology behind it all will be and whatever software will be used, it’s likely we won’t have a PC AND a Plasma/LCD TV, we’ll probably just have multipurpose ‘screens’ so to say and key boards we move around (or, at least, keyboards, printers etc will all be based on wireless technology and hopefully, all units will be more compatible with eachother than they are today).
But what about the hard drive? Will it be integrated with our ‘multipurpose screens’ or a separate unit?
“I thought you (swedes) did get a few things right in the 40s and 50s.”
- Yes, but perhaps we should have joined the NATO?
Regards.