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Predicting The Future
Posted by isecore on April 7th, 2008
I’m precognitive. In case you’re not into fancy terms, that means I can see the future. It doesn’t work for everything, but let me show you one example of what will come.
Commercials on television, for example. While today they’re fairly acceptable in the future they will simply consist of a very loud voice shouting the name of the company they’re advertising over and over.
For example:
AMAZON.COM AMAZON.COM AMAZON.COM AMAZON.COM AMAZON.COM AMAZON.COM AMAZON.COM AMAZON.COM AMAZON.COM AMAZON.COM AMAZON.COM AMAZON.COM AMAZON.COM AMAZON.COM AMAZON.COM AMAZON.COM AMAZON.COM AMAZON.COM AMAZON.COM AMAZON.COM AMAZON.COM
and so on. I just chose Amazon as an example. Please don’t sue me.
Accompanying this symphony of madness the screen will flash out the logo of the company in epilepsy-inducing batches. Commercials will also be much longer, probably fifteen minutes or so per commercial. Per hour there will be less than five minutes of actual programming, the rest will simply be these commercials.
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And speaking of programming. Since people of the future will have mush for brains, the entertainment will have to be reduced in order to fit their limited attention-span.
The only form of entertainment that will survive will be what we currently call “reality-shows”. In the future they will simply be called “reality” and everyone will blindly follow it. Instead of contestants or participants we’ll probably just use red or blue dots to indicate what’s going on. I mean, after all, conversation will require those mushy brains to work and that can’t be expected of the audience, right?
The red and blue dots will bob around the screen while a commenter similar to sports-commentators we have today will explain the intrigue.
Something like this:
“Oh, one of the blue dots is really angry since one of the red dots messed around with a yellow dot, even though they were engaged. Then all the red dots decided to vote the green dots off the island, but the orange dots staged a mutiny and killed all the brown dots”
And so on.
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Okay, so I can’t actually predict the future. But what we have on television today is simply a less reformed version of the above. And if you don’t like my prediction, well, I suggest you rent either Idiocracy or They Live. Both are vastly under-appreciated movies.
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April 7th, 2008 at 10:49
Today there is two sorts of TV. The “free” (as in, comercial) and the “not-free” as in pay-per-view or subscription based.
The “free” will never go away, this is what normal programing lives and thrives on. The paid TV today is gaining popularity. Examples are Canal Digital and Viasat (for scandinavia atleast), and on those channels there is no commercial and much less “reality TV” then on the other category (TV3-4-5-6-7 etc). But reality TV is loosing out more and more, gone are the days when Canal Digital could sell 24/7 tickets for Big Brother. They still do (I belive) but during my time on CD my managment was worried that the sales of those tickets acctualy was getting lower, and that year was the all-time low.
People are getting tierd of live tv, they want better scripts etc. Shows like o.c proves this.
And commercial sells because the timeslot and show is popular. If the shows has 45 min commercials and 15 min show, no-one would see the show and thuss the company selling the product would’t pay for the commercial (reputation is importaint). It’s a balance. I belive a future where we pay for what we want when we want it. AppleTV, Live Marketplace (x360) and ITunes (and soon Playstation Network) proves this. But regular TV will stick around because not everyone has the internet connection to allow for “broadband” entertainment.
April 9th, 2008 at 10:43
Or maybe noone will pay for anything in the future because all monetary systems has crashed and we will have replicators and… Wait, how far into the future are we talking about?
Henka, before you say anything furter, remember what our beloved fouth channel does (still); they start showing a movie, then pauses the whole thing for half an hour(!) to show commercials and stuff about what’s coming later and what has allready happened in the world (news)… If I want to watch the film, in one hour I’ll only see what I want 50% of the time…