Media Past, Present, & Future

After watching the short videos "Web 2.0...The Machine is Using Us" and "Epic 2015" all I can say is...Run for the hills!!! Skynet is coming!!! The machines are finally rising against us!

Okay, with that out of my system, pun unintentionally intended, now on to my real opinion.

The rapid growth of technology, both hard-& software, global communication has become that of sci-fi of years past, meaning once was considered poppy cock and fantasy is now a reality. Media has grown from telling stories around fires and print on paper to new interactive mediums, i.e. video games, websites, live chat (text & video), etc. TV, magazines, & newspapers are becoming less popular as stand alone mediums and is slowly being merged with the internet as at least somewhat interactive mediums. I do not completely like this; I like to watch TV, minus most of the commercials, and watch a story unfold, I do not always want to be part of the action taking place. Sometimes I just like to be an observer, a listener, or watcher. Stan Lee of Marvel Comics once said that he believed that the feeling of holding a comic book in one's hand, or any printed media for that matter, would be missed so it would never completely be disappear. I always like "bathroom reading", I don't want to read tiny digital text when I'm on the can, I like bigger text that doesn't hurt my eyes.

The different types of media are being converged more & more in this day and age but each still has its own niche and use. I would like to watch a video while I'm driving, but listening to music or a talk show is a lot safer because my eyes aren't diverted from the road. The whole world isn't "hard wired" yet, so many countries and are still developing and only a few of those people may have access to the world wide web. What I'm trying to say is, though media has become a whole new creature than what it was 50 years ago, politics, war, poverty, global problems, our own egos hinder the progress of technology its benefits to to the world at large.