Future Dream Hardware

Further to my earlier post tonight, I was watching a segment on Beyond Tomorow and was starting to wonder how far technology is going to go.

The segment on the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics show gave me the impression that every person will shortly be carrying around a tv in their pocket. This really does scare me as a parent - i often have a problem getting my children to do anything when the TV is on. We jokingly call it the TV - Total eVaporation .

This brings me to the point as to how much television do we really need to watch. We are able to get webcasts, podcasts, streaming video, video messages, video attached to emails and the list goes on. Do we really need yet another way for someone to fry our brains with more targetted advertising methods. Imagine that any provider of mobile phone services can basically re-telecast any Free to air TV service and put their own banner ads or targetted advertising into the program. This also then leads to further issues with Copyright infringement. Most of the devices shown are capable of capturing and storing these video signals. We already have enough of an issue with the digital music revolution and MP3 etc. do we need the same thing with our Television networks next?

Oh well - enough ramblings for tonight