The Internet and Television
These two are definitely giving each other the eye.
Are they going to jump into bed together ?
What will their children be like ?
Television - the third parent.
The Internet - widow maker.
While our kids watch TV, we parents are surfing the net.
Kids and parents have been divorced by the allure of modern
electronics.
Our only hope of reintegrating the family, of sitting in the same room
again: merge the Internet and Television.
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Many people are speculating on ways to converge TV and the Internet.
But why ?
Basically: TV is an all-pervasive consumer technology badly in need of
a shot in the arm - or, like the Scarecrow from
The Land of Oz, badly in need of a brain.
And the Internet's content has matured commercially to the point where
the main bottlenecks are the cost of the computer required to access it,
and the technical sophistication needed to effectively use it.
It seems that some cross-fertilisation of the two technologies could
produce interesting children..
There are two basic options: Give the PC TV capabilities, or
vice-versa.
So for example,
Intel and the Intercast Industry Group, are developing
the Intercast medium to make it possible for your home PC to
receive HTML-formatted Web pages and streaming information along
with your regular television programming.
You not only get to watch your favorite show,
but you get in depth articles and links to related sites.
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