 | People think of using the net for leisure as looking at people's badly-written homepages or looking at shopping sites. Amongst others. But this is the start of the internet for delivering entertainment. Most entertainment is provided by television and radio, closely followed by books and magazines. The reason for this is simple - all of these mediums are highly portable, books and magazines can be read in space or at the bottom of the ocean, and radio and television can be received in most places with portable equipment. The internet on the other hand, is currently mainly static, with very few people using laptops and mobile telephones to connect remotely. But this is the way entertainment will go. As laptops get smaller and more powerful and telecommunication and data compression improves, you will no longer have seperate televisions, radios and computers, but a multi-format mobile telephone/computer which, rather than pick up signals broadcast openly, will dial into the internet and connect to the service you want. This will have to happen soon because space in the radio-spectrum is running out fast, and digital television and radio broadcasts aren't making that much difference. Even your car entertainment system will just dial into the net to recieve radio and television programmes from all around the world (as well as liasing with your local garage to arrange a service). Which leads on to the next major change - you won't find television stations the same as they are today.... rather than watch one channel out of hundreds which show a variety of programmes, you will just select the specific programme, film, series etc from a menu, and watch it there and then. You won't need a video or DVD recorder either - what's the point in recording something in your home when you can watch it whenever you want straight off the net? There are some things you still won't be able to do.... in our lifetime, anyway.... you won't be able to go out clubbing on the net, get drunk with your friends and throw up all over them, walk through the countryside and smell the cow-shit.... there's a big future in the net.... |
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