John Stewart, the show that is too late for people with kids - which is part of the conspiracy - is interviewed in Wired:
Stewart: The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom. That's all it is. All those media companies say, "We're going to make a killing here." You won't because it's still only as good as the content.When will being off the internet be the next big thing?
[Wired:] Yet there's a lot of venture capital going into video-delivery technologies that could allow more shows to go online. Isn't there something promising about new ways to watch television?
Stewart: Sure. But how much do you need TV to be available in convenient form? It already is convenient - we have the DVR. Do you need TV on your watch as you walk from your cell phone to your BlackBerry? At what point do we get saturated enough to say, "OK, I get it! We can get anything we want at any time! Let's go sit around a large table and eat a meal in silence"? Sometimes this shit's just overkill.
Comments
'nee - August 25, 2005 5:03 PM
We're all just trend survivors, like CB radiosts if CB Radio was ever cool, which admittedly it never was. We were here before it was cool because we're nerds, and we'll be here after it's finished being cool. Things come and things go, but nerds remain interesting in the technology for its own sake, or in this case the forum for its own sake, or whatever it may be. Nerds! I don't actually have a point or anything, really, just that Jon Stewart is quite the dish.
Alan - August 25, 2005 5:08 PM
CB was sooooooo cool. We used to gather as kids around the CB store, swaping <i>CB Radio Monthly</i>, trading CB radio pioneer bubblegum cards...