--- In [email protected], Mike Hudack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Oct 26, 2005, at 2:40 PM, Irish Hermit wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Pete Prodoehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > I guess it's a matter of definition... I obviously don't agree > > with your > > > definition of 'television' which to me requires licenses, towers, > > lots > > > of staff, advertisers, lawyers, sizable audiences, etc... > > > > From Wikepedia: The word television is a hybrid word, created from > > both Greek and Latin. Tele- is Greek for "far", while -vision is > > from the Latin visio, meaning "vision" or "sight". Whether it's > > broadcast over the air or narrowcast over the internet it's still > > the delivery of moving pictures and audio over a distance > Good point. I think common usage will be the determining factor, and > I'm leaning towards Andreas' assertion that "Lost" purchased through > iTunes Music Store is still "television" while Rocketboom is not > (Andreas, please correct me if I'm mischaracterizing what you had to > say). > > > Personally I consider email and blogs giant leaps in how we > > communicate. > > > > > I think this discussion right here is proof of that. > > > > Email si, blogs no! Blogs are nothing more than a direct > > descendent of mimeographed family newsletters. The technology is > > new, the idea is old. > And e-mail isn't a direct descendent of the Pony Express or the > letters to the Corinthians or whatever? > > These types of communication are constant themes in human history... > we just keep improving them. >
There's a strong tendency among technologists to see a ideal state coming out of a new technology. That technology will give rise to expressions and freedoms we are just starting to taste. While technology has made a pivotal difference in humans to all aspects -- health, mobility, sight, sound, thought, etc. Technology itself is neutral. There's been a heated discussion in blogs on Nicholas Carr's Amorility entry, http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2005/10/the_amorality_o.php While I don't agree completely on Carr's assertions, I do think there is a point about technology being neutral. It is human nature that give technology meaning. Then the question is the qualities of human nature. Has it changed in the last last 10,000 years since the agricultural revolution (and before that) or not? If not, then looking from characteristics human nature one can predict roughtly how a new technology can be used and what it will become. -- Enric ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/T8sf5C/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
