A Digital Genesis

As we prepare our T.V.'s to go digital I wonder how many people will be left without television. You know tons of poor people have been buying those old "rabbit-ears" T.V.'s to get a few channels if not all of them. Digital means you need to get cable service to get the T.V. channels. So that will divide and draw a line between people for once. I suppose that it was bound to happen, all those old T.V. antennas have probably been up for a long time and can be considered way out of date by now. Information transfer isn't done the same anymore and ironically the new way will shut out a lot of people. I had a crappy black & white T.V. in college that I watched "The Simpsons" on. What I would've done without that I don't know. They had their own appeal really, trying to tune in the stations that you aren't supposed to get. My friend once spliced cable from a friend's apartment. Now everything will be digital. That marks a major change to me. And information transfer will be done with mostly fiber optics, sending information through wires of light. And someday computers will have nothing but fiber optics in them because light can transfer the information much faster. Fiber optics are so space age to me, I'm still in amazement of it really. Now digital, that's a different terrain, not quite as good as fiber optics, but if you mix the two then you got really fast fiber optic digital transfer. Comcast supposedly does this for their service of internet and cable already but I think it could go much faster. They have to regulate speeds on transfer to be able to monitor hacking and other crazy things. Besides speed everything being digital is pretty big. Next thing you know Blockbuster will sell digital downloads. But I'll always love DVD boxes, you can't replace a library you could actually see on a shelf with digital downloads. And then that'll cause a major problem with storage, people's computers will need a lot more storage to store music, movies, games, and everything else. It's at times like this I wonder if the future could ever really be better in certain ways. And that is a scary thought, to think progress could be hindering us, which is theoretically possible but not likely. With everything digital that means we'll be able to pay for anything anywhere. It all leads to a single system to do everything. Which can be good and bad. But in a race for convenience are we giving up more? Everything is always about convenience.



Guest Commentator VIRGIN VIKING SLUT says: "I prefer the bullhorn for information transfer!"