So, earlier today we went to the mall in the next state and mom discovered about the existence of Blu-Ray and HD television (which I still find deeply creepy) and thought perhaps buying one of those fancy flatscreen television sets.
Today I learned what LCD was, so it was not a wasted time. But those things still pesky me, nowadays wherever I see on US television shows everyone seem to have LCD TV sets (even The Simpsons!) and I still don't know exactly how are they superior to my regular idiot box or why should go insane and get one. I mean, it makes me feel that technology is becoming more and more hermetic, almost a religion and Steve Jobs is pope and now one can't disarm a regular television set or a radio without the help of a priestly handyman, as if it was the revenge of the nerds.
Is this conspicious consumption or I am just becoming stubborn about changing technology? Sometimes scares me the idea that if all technology falls down, then we won't have psychical records. It's like how the Ancient Greek kept their teachings oral, so now we don't have their teachings, you get what I mean?
Flatscreen TV sets... it makes me think of Farenheit 451, it's a goddamn window, but TVs are not meant to be windows, they should be like a stove or microwave, an appliance. Not something super-dooper integrated to our homes.
I care about improving our lives through technology, but I disdain conspicious consumption. How many plastic TV sets produce? Old DVDs in the garbage bin... I bet you could fulfill freakin' Puerto Rico of old discarded VCRs, Betamax and now DVDs. Why people don't like DVDs anymore? Though I haven't tested Blu-Ray, so this is just being a blowhard.
I own over 250 DVD movies. What I am going to do with them?
Am I becoming too stubborn and suspicious of change? Am I sounding too much like The Unabomber?
Today I learned what LCD was, so it was not a wasted time. But those things still pesky me, nowadays wherever I see on US television shows everyone seem to have LCD TV sets (even The Simpsons!) and I still don't know exactly how are they superior to my regular idiot box or why should go insane and get one. I mean, it makes me feel that technology is becoming more and more hermetic, almost a religion and Steve Jobs is pope and now one can't disarm a regular television set or a radio without the help of a priestly handyman, as if it was the revenge of the nerds.
Is this conspicious consumption or I am just becoming stubborn about changing technology? Sometimes scares me the idea that if all technology falls down, then we won't have psychical records. It's like how the Ancient Greek kept their teachings oral, so now we don't have their teachings, you get what I mean?
Flatscreen TV sets... it makes me think of Farenheit 451, it's a goddamn window, but TVs are not meant to be windows, they should be like a stove or microwave, an appliance. Not something super-dooper integrated to our homes.
I care about improving our lives through technology, but I disdain conspicious consumption. How many plastic TV sets produce? Old DVDs in the garbage bin... I bet you could fulfill freakin' Puerto Rico of old discarded VCRs, Betamax and now DVDs. Why people don't like DVDs anymore? Though I haven't tested Blu-Ray, so this is just being a blowhard.
I own over 250 DVD movies. What I am going to do with them?
Am I becoming too stubborn and suspicious of change? Am I sounding too much like The Unabomber?
