December 13th, 2007
Set in stone
Have you noticed that televisions are disappearing?
It’s all to do with something I call the set:screen ratio… I predict at the current rate we will lose all set by 2013, we’ll just have screen.
Sure, the older generation will still refer to them as televisions, maybe even TV sets, but the youngsters will just know them as screens.
And whilst I love TV for its brain, I’m partial to its body too… design wise. If you just have screen, then all televisions will look more or less the same. It’ll be our loss in the end.
This comic was mostly inspired by what Franzy said back in the comments to ‘Teach a man to fish‘, thanks Franzy.
Philip J Schadenfreude on
Adam, man, you’re insane! A TV without a set is wonderful. It’s like Jeff on Coupling said- it’s like a jam sandwich, only without the bread. Of course he was talking about lesbians at the time, but I think the same principal applies here. Now I’m confused. I blame you.
Jam, lesbians, big screen tv’s.
The rest of this thread has nothing to contirbute after this post.
I like bread…
They are working on screens that roll up, I think. Can’t remember where I heard that, so it could just be a hallucination, but it’s a fun one anyway.
http://www.physorg.com/news99324092.html
Nice. So the voices are right, I am sane. Good to know.
When we just have screens I’m going to custom design an ovular flat casing which will hang from the ceiling by a special conduit so I will have a futuristic viewscreen like from a bad sci-fi movie in my living room.
disruptive innovation tends to do that, rendering her past obsolete. dead media project comes to mind.
what franzy said reminds me of all the steampunk malarkey. moore’s law is forcing us to reprogram ourselves to use future technology even before we have accustomed ourselves to the present ones.
I’m so damn flattered, I don’t know what to do with myself! Thank you, Adam!
And for the record - I like steampunk stuff. I’m not sure I’d ever consciously OWN it, but I admire them as art pieces.
My mother’s TV must have been 25 years old.
At least. The screens they make today have an
average life of 8 or 10 years. How is that better?
I love this concept that things built decades ago were better. Every one then pulls out an example of why that is so.
Like my mates tractor, it is from the 50’s and is better then the new ones that break down all the time, and it never needs to be serviced, etc.
Same with that TV of your mothers Seraphine.
The crap ones break, leaving just the good ones to go on, which makes the whole lot of em look good.
True that manufacturing has become more cost focused, but I don’t think pulling out one example, from the millions of units that were sold, proves anything.
Sorry f you feel that I am picking on you, but this is something that frustrates me greatly.
This is the basic idea behind steampunk.
You know it never occurred to me that I may have to buy a TV of some sort in the future. Whoa. I thought of cable/satellite but not the actual hardware. x_X
i find it incredibly ironic that with all the thought that goes into making all the wonderful new technology look good, we like the way the old stuff looks better.
i’ve been trying to draw steampunk-style things lately, but i can’t find a good image of a steam engine
i’m guessing nostalgia and a healthy infatuation with the aesthetics of the period to be the main reason behind this and many other trends like it. there were technological advancement/theories/hypothesis/ideas that were influenced by the genre, mostly entertained in sci-fi comics and novels. but for all that is worth mentioning, most of them are usually vanity-based; focusing more on the form rather than the function. thus far, from what i’ve observed anyway.
presently, there is a very active steampunk-based forum that you might like to partake in.
here –> http://www.freakangels.com/whitechapel/
thanks shi, this ought to be helpful.