I get a bad taste in my mouth when I read stuff like this. Television and tech do not mix. Television is too slow, too uninformed to discuss real technology and certainly, not if it can't do so without stooping to the Simple Life / Bad Girl's Club level.
It's why television is getting the crap kicked out of itself by new applications like Tivo and Blu-Ray. It's why television still schedules like it's 1967, still refers to the hours between 6 and 10 as 'Prime Time' (as if we have time to sit still and watch your crummy shows for 4 hours at a stretch) and still wonders why it steadily loses to other, cheaper mediums like Youtube or Funnyordie. Why can a kid with a laptop and a $300 camcorder create content that's funnier than a roomful of writers down in Century City can come up with? Tech belongs to the forward thinkers - is there anything more backwards than 'American Idol'? Or 'Dancing With the Stars'? You know why these are popular shows? BECAUSE THERE'S NOTHING ELSE ON, YOU RETARDS! Yeah, I said 'retards'...deal with it.
That's not enough for you, is it? You don't understand technology, so therefore you don't create a way to bring tech to the masses - you just tell everyone that just underneath the surface, all female geeks look and act like Paris Hilton. Ooh, they 'blog'...how provocative! I've always wanted people of all walks of life to be sublimated into the showbiz lifestyle! Deep down...we all want a dog that can fit in a purse!
I hate showbiz. I hate television and I hate the people who define what it shows. I hate the fact that the technology I love gets pressed into a box that they can understand they haven't even bothered to try and understand what new technology is and what it means for the world at large. So keep your fake version of the tech revolution. Hope that pink iPhone suits you. Me, I'm gonna go get a box of junk and wire it all together JUST BECAUSE I CAN.
Choke on it.
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