I knew it was coming. I just didn’t know exactly when. Or who would “pull the trigger”. But I should have.
Tonight, for me at least, television as a distinct medium died. I have vague childhood recollections of watching a president discuss a war on the recently-obtained new technological marvel TELEVISION.
The president was named Harry, the war, in some place called “Korea”. As I watched, not fully grasping the meaning of what was being said, I remember a sense of distrust in the impression I got. Deja vu, the first time.
I haven’t watched “TV” in a while—the internet is just too absorbing. And INTERACTIVE!!
But it’s different now… television is dead. John Perry just killed it. (more…)