an incomplete rant about computers and television

I do what I do for a couple of reason. I guess, this kind of thing really can’t be written with accuracy until more towards the latewr years of life.

What i like about computer sciene, and graphic design has a couple of reasons.

the fist and formost reason why i like comptuer science is because of the ‘new’ aspect to it. I like to feel like i’m on the cutting edge of society and evolution in genreal. I feel that never before in history of human kind have we experienced such a time. Technology is changing the way everything is done. Technology and evolution do coorilate with each other. Humans have long since depended on technolgy for survival and prosperity.

The comptuer, which is still in it’s infancy, facinates me. Although i am not much of a programmer myself, nor to I strive to be, I like being a computer user. A user of applications, and innovator in the way in which they are used.

I like web design for its broadcast potential. I think the web is innovative because it has the ability to allow anyone in the world with a computer and internet access to get on ‘the same page’ so to speak. Exccause the pun. But the fact of the matter is that the internet can allow people to get the sameinformation and act on it in a unified way.

This is powerful.

Right now, the dominent broadcast medium is the television. First of all, let me go on record as saying ‘fuck television’. Fuck it, in the sense of the way it is used to entertain, sell, and the way it inadvertently destroys creativity. EVery day I come home, I see the stranglehold it has on my dad. He sits there, and watch programming that he really isn’t that intrested in. Programming….. programming. The television is set up to program people. And it is the perfect tool for it since the mind so readily responds to images.

I say fuck that because it is a oneway medium. In other words, the person’s interaction with the television is not there. It is to be stared at.

The saving grace of the television is the abiliy to project images. Now, take the static box and change the way in which people interact with it. Plug it into a computer and now you have a two-way system going. That excites me. It is visual feedback from many, many calculations. The computer is visual math.