[WesternCulture]

“You may be partly right. But will there be as many who contemn computers/internet as TV?”

- I don’t think so.

The main reason for this is the obvious usefulness of computers/Internet and the interactiveness of this technology (despite various aspects that people complain about).

In today’s society, it’s easier to exist without a TV than without some sort of Internet access.

Due to the differences between TV and Computers, I think watching TV always will be associated with stupidity and Computers with intelligence.

By the way, already in the 1950’s and 1960’s when TV programs in Sweden (my country) often were very ‘educational’ and many programs were of a rather ‘intellectual’ sort, ordinary people called TV ‘The Dumb Box’ (- meaning a stupid activity for stupid people).

[caveat emptor]

Due to the differences between TV and Computers, I think watching TV always will be associated with stupidity and Computers with intelligence.

Forty years ago , or even 20 years ago there may have been some validity to that viewpoint, but today there is a much greater volume of ignorance and arrogance, if not outright stupidity , on the internet than on TV (stupidity in humans is constant IMO - within, if not across, racial/cultural subgroups).

And getting back to your original time frame (within 10 years), there will be by then just a single technology. New technology which reconfigures pixels to greatly reduce the size/weight of displays is well advanced, and soon every cell "phone" will be a fully functional phone/TV, with clear, crisp movie quality images.

When I first heard of this a couple of years ago I was skeptical - who wants to watch movies on a cell phone, I thought. Well, a good deal of what shows up on the internet is now unavailable to me (think Utube) because I live in the wilderness and have only dialup internet access.

I thought you (swedes) did get a few things right in the 40s and 50s.