Wolsamnoraa's Blog

Can you even f#ckin’ believe how close we are to the future?  Tomorrow is coming?  Yeah, right.  Tomorrow is already here, and I’ll tell you why:  I was sitting on the couch the other day with my beautiful flat screen television radiantly glowing with syndicated entertainment.  As I sat poised in front of the TV’s warming vibrancy, I was surfing the interwebs with my lap top.  It struck me as odd when, in the middle of Hulu.com’s presentation of the Office, TBS was running the same episode.  Thanks to the bitchin’ audio setup I have on my teev and the hair raising volumetrics on the laptop, I was hearing Micheal Scott’s brilliance in this awesomely, staggered double stereo echo deal.  As awesome as it was, I realized that TV is a medium for showcasing regularly scheduled programming, syndicated and new, that no one is watching.  Even if you turn it on, you’re not even really watching it.  As people grow into the future, they are beginning to crave interaction.  Just like your very Jewish mother or dust collecting Nintendo Wii, people want things they can control.  What’s on TV cannot be controlled and “regularly scheduled” has become as offensive a term now as cum drunk gutter slut was back in the 90′s.  Even though you can’t control what’s on TV, just like catching your roommates doing sex, you can control what you see.  Computers, specifically ones connected to the Internet, have the distinct advantage of allowing viewers to tickle their entertainment fancies whenever and with whatever they want.  TV is competing with OnDemand programming and huge caches of videos (television shows, movies, amateur porn and everything in between) on a slew of websites.  I believe that the only reason that TVs even exist today is that they are pretty to look at.  It would be so much simpler if there was a more complicated technology that combined the visually appealing format of television with the computing power of a computer.  Fortunately, for us future dwellers, this technology already exists.  It’s called imagination.  I believe with a little know-how and a lot of money, we have the power to dream up something more futuristic and technologically advanced than the archaic drudgery of today.  I look forward to that time now.