In Mosco's piece, he talks about the idea that every new technology medium is viewed as the "end all be all" starting with the telegraph advancing to the telephone and eventually cable television and currently the Internet. People speculated that their particular era was unique in transforming the world as it was currently formulated. Writers spoke in the same way with cable television as being an information super highway that they talk about with the Internet today. But what does the future have in store for us?
Certainly there are people that believe that we cannot possibly do much better than the Internet with the numerous ways to access it from your gaming system, cell phone, television, etc. Those people would argue that we have revolutionized the world, and have gone leaps and bounds beyond the telegraph and telephone, and they would be right. But history has a habit of repeating itself, and with that comes a new technology medium. You are starting to see a new wave of innovation with 3D televisions coming from the movie theatres into your own living room. Within another 5 years I would imagine 3D televisions will be quite affordable for most of middle America, and then what's next? How do we keep expanding into the future? In futuristic movies, the idea of virtual reality is explored with the possiblity of living out alt-world fantasies like in the movie Gamer, where you can take control of a real person and act out a real life videogame as if you were actually right there.
This is just one vision that some have for the future of technology mediums, but it is almost certain that the Internet will not be the stopping point with the way that technology moves in such rapid forward movements.
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Ryan Mergen
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