3D TV

Whats Next Smelly-Vision?

3D TV is a relative newcomer to our homes and just like back when black-and-white TV made it into our homes, the technology was expensive. Nothing has really changed, except that people now buy stuff they cannot afford, on credit, so every-one tries to keep-up-with-the-Jones', and goes out an buys the latest kit. I remember B & W TV and also remember when we got our first color TV (and being one of the last in our street to do so).

Now we take TV for granted, so much so, that we even have two TVs in the kitchen (as well as two music-stereos), so that we can watch two TV's at once! Is that excessive? People who have never experienced this, get confused when they first see my home layout. In the living-room, we have four more TV's - but only one is set for receiving TV, the others are for xBox and Playstations.

Every member of my family, (five kids, three of whom are now young adults and have partners of their own), can easily tune in to different sources of entertainment. I'm taking on a mental issue here, newcomers cannot get used to the noise and often ask how we can all be listening to different things at once and still hear and concentrate on what we focus on. It is just that; we have got used to focusing on whatever we turn our attentions to.

My eldest son, who mostly lives away down south now, for work reasons, came to visit for the weekend. His new partner was amazed to see him fit right back into, having several conversations, all happening at the same time. I have a large family and we all chatter on several topics. Its not unusual to have two people talking to you, but usually you are all talking about the same topic!

Whilst I sit here, I have Die Hard 4 starting on Film 4 (UK TV) and I am working on two PC's. (MSN and a webinar in about an hour on one PC and blogging this into Squidoo directly on the second PC, whilst simultaneously making an update video for my Youtube page, about how to put a video onto your Squidoo lens). I have the recording paused right now, whilst I type this description!

A third PC is actually turned-off for the day, (well, its a slow day for me), due to a fault on the hard-drive of my third PC. Yet a fourth PC is set for a family member to use. (One of my sons is on Face-Book right now, chatting and playing a Face-Book game and another son is Playing the xBox, online with friends. It might sound like a mad-house, but it works for us!

What I'm trying to say is, that we do take all of this technology for granted! We had a power-cut about a month ago, (Jan 2011) and we ended up sat playing a board game -(Monopoly), by candle-light. Back in the days my gran was a teenage girl, (at the turn of 1900), the most technology that she had access to, was a light switch and a radio. (a wireless as she called it).

We do take technology for granted these days. I just cannot imagine whats next on the horizon for us. 3D TV? What could we possibly do to improve on that. We have totally interactive game-play online, either with other gamers or AI bots. Where do we go from there I wonder? Possibly 3D VR? (Virtual Reality).

What about Smelly-Vision? That would really make the films and programs come to life - hey what? What about watching The Autopsy, or programs like The Filth Files, where they go into disgusting places to clean-up. Do you think that technology is going to hit a final brick-wall, where there is nothing new to do, except improve picture quality and size of screen? Whats after 3D TV? Maybe it will be Smelly-Vision. Or perhaps VR TV, virtual reality films and programs, where you can choose to be anyone in the film or program and interact within it?

I think you will agree that we Techno-Notice of our current technologies and rely on them too much. We may one day pay the price of our fragile lifestyles, built up around our technology. If we had to return to 19th century lifestyle existence due to a holocaust of some nature, we may find ourselves up the creek, without a paddle! (Or a mobile phone, portable plasma HD 3D Blue-Ray DVD player or lap-top). What a nightmare!

AndyGold. (Thinking, what would I do without a spoll-chucker)?

AndyGold.

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