Book plan - please comment. How The Television Has Evolved. The television counts among a handful of designs that most dramatically changed 20th-century society. As this illustrated poster by Reddit user CaptnChristiana visualizes, the design has evolved mightily since the boxy retro contraptions of yesteryear, like the Emyvisor and the Marconi. With flatscreens and high-definition displays that can seem crisper and more colorful than reality itself, 21st-century viewers are comparatively spoiled. The modern television’s earliest ancestor was the Octagon, made by General Electric in 1928. It used a mechanical, rotating disc technology to display images on its three-inch screen. While it was never mass-produced, it played what is widely considered the world’s first television drama: "The Queen’s Messenger.
" Soon, this primitive technology evolved into commercially available home TV sets, accessible, at first, only as fancy toys for the wealthy. [H/T Reddit] [Image: 1950s television via Flickr / Clapagaré] TV IS DEAD by Toby Miller. Every now and then, I get the proverbial swarm flying around my headgear as people announce, predict, or incarnate the end of television. This generally takes the form of remarks such as ‘My children don’t watch television,’ ‘Nobody I know does it,’ or ‘Kids today aren’t interested.’ From music to politics, television’s day is supposedly over. This isn’t only true of everyday talk, of course. We are forced to encounter it in scholarly, popular, and bourgeois media alike on an almost diurnal basis. A recent example, which extrapolates from one person’s decisions to pronounce an entire cultural shift, is representative of a bizarre punditry that cannot stop itself despite almost two decades of saying the same, wrong, thing. My inner truck driver meets my inner Wittgenstein at such moments, as per when I am told that the internet matters in public views of politics.
But I’m always ready for these claims to be proven correct. Let’s examine some numbers. Federico Kukso — Arqueología de la palabra escrita. La muerte del email: la Generación Z ya no utiliza el correo electrónico. Contáctenos A través de este formulario podrá dejarnos sus comentarios, sugerencias o inquietudes. Dirigido a: Redacción Comercial Sistemas Suscripciones Todos los campos son obligatorios. Suscripción al Newsletter Ingreso mal su mail!
Recibí las noticias más relevantes del día en tu correo electrónico. Viernes 25.04.2014 | 03:02 Búsqueda Avanzada >> secciones El contenido solicitado no fue encontrado Posibles motivos del error Si escribiste la dirección, verificá que esté bien escrita. Te sugerimos algunas secciones de nuestro sitio. Internet Invention: From Literacy to Electracy:Amazon:Books. The Code of Life. Technology is not dehumanizing. It’s what makes us human. Shocking photo evidence of dehumanized millennials. (oFace Killah via Flickr) A new survey from Intel making the rounds today is being touted with headlines about how young adults say technology is dehumanizing. And there is one line from the press release describing the findings of the survey that supports that characterization: "A majority of millennials agree that technology makes people less human and that society relies on technology too much.
" But looking at the options for responding to that question, other responses in the same survey, and how one defines what makes someone "human," that angle on the survey falls apart. To start with, the way the specific question being interpreted as "dehumanizing" was worded didn't really give respondents a lot of leeway. They were asked which was closer to their world view: "technology makes us more human" or "technology makes us less human. " By all means, go read Intel's survey. What your internet of things startup should learn from Netflix and the disaggregation of TV. The internet, standards and open platforms have allowed businesses to break up content and services into discrete and disaggregated parts. Now instead of paying $80 a month for a pay-TV package and getting 60 channels you don’t want, you can assemble the shows you like via Netflix, iTunes or any number of other available services and get a relative bargain.
The problem of course, is that when you break things up, you might get exactly what you want, but you no longer have the assurance of the cable company delivering your single stream. Now you have Netflix’s servers (which are really Amazon’s), a content delivery network or two, an ISP and even your home Wi-Fi network all a factor in the quality of the experience. So when a video fails, who does the consumer call? This a problem that the video industry is working out right now, with efforts from ISPs, big content companies and even startups trying to ensure quality of service on the network. And those are just the services. 2011.06.27_organizational_charts.