Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Driving into the Future

Taking on a new course about TV and the future…

Stephen: Television is a difficult subject to teach.

Marshall: Oh, I agree. It means something different to everyone.

Stephen: So, I’ve been asked to teach a course on the future of television.

Marshall: That’s a challenge.

Stephen: I’ve talked to the professor who taught the course before. He treated it like a history of the medium and tried to foretell how it would develop.

Marshall: Like driving into the future using only the rearview mirror?

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Voiceover

What makes it difficult to teach this subject is that technology is disrupting the medium faster than history is incrementally changing its nature.

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