Actually that's a really good point - hadn't thought of it that way... We always assume that what the 'kids' to today will be the model in 10 maybe 20 years... But actually when you think about it that's not necessarily the case... Like you when I was a teenager I spent most of my time messing with my C64 and then later on with the NES and a few other things - very little if any time in front of the box.
But now... 15 years later I spend a lot more time in front of the box, but... With a laptop on my lap emailing, making sure I turn off phone notifications in Twitter, and messing with stuff... Perhaps what we're seeing is the end of TV as a dominant platform... Families would sit around the wireless and listen intently, then as time moved on Radio became a platform you listened to whilst you did something else - passive if you like - TV has always been a sit back technology, do nothing else just watch - now that's changing... It doesn't mean it's dead. m -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Bowden Sent: 28 November 2006 15:02 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [backstage] Psiphon > now since there are only so many hours in the day, it's pretty certain > that TV's dominance in terms of time (and it's *hugely dominant, even > for kids) will be challenged - but yotube won't kill TV - it'll change > it, just like TV changed radio, but radio listening is more popular > than ever. What will be most interesting to me is what happens 20 years down the line. What happens to those kids who sit in front of their PCs and You Tube now. I wonder because I look at my own life. Fifteen to twenty years ago, I spent a lot of time in my room playing computer games on my Spectrum/Atari ST/386. I watched little television - and even less in the main room. Zoom forward to present day and I sit on my sofa with my widescreen TV quite a bit. I no longer have a joystick. The PC sits upstairs - if I'm on it, I'm checking emails, messing with stuff. Behaviours change - situations change. What is common to do at one point in your life, will not always be so. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
