This essay by Christine Rosen speaks to the potential problems related to having total choice/control over everything you see, read and hear… I thought this part was particularly interesting:
‘One blogger, whose daughter was
three months old when the family purchased their first TiVo, “gets quite
confused when we are watching a non-TiVo TV, and she asks to watch ‘a kids’
show,’ and we have to explain that this TV won’t do what ours at home does.â€
She thinks the television is broken. Another mother whose child has grown up
watching DVDs said of her four-year old, “She just takes for granted that you
can always cue up the song or scene that you want, or watch things in whatever
order you want.’
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5 responses to “Interesting read: Tivos Ipods and Egocasting.”
Ya do you guys remember TAPES. My first Walkman didnt even have a rewind button. You had to flip the tape and fast forward to rewind. Those were the days, when I listened to the radio cause they were more efficient at repeating songs then my yellow machine.
you need one of these patty:
http://www.retropod.com/
think u forgot the link for the essay
duh, stupid me
i fixed it
1 am 23, and noticed that after only a few months of using TiVo, that my brain will automaticly want to ‘rewind’ something interesting in every day life… it actually makes me want to laugh when I realize that I’m not watching TV, but experiencing real life. I don’t think this is a problem, but is interesting to realize that our own brains are actually much better than TiVo, but we don’t take the time to use our own brains to their full potential because it is much easier to push ‘rewind’ on the TiVo. I am guilty of this as much as the next person… well, i have to go… TiVo is on… :)