emotional society

the idea is to keep us highly emotional so that we can spend our money on things that we don't need. so you have movies and television shows mixed in with commercials and sensationalized news stories. you have polarized positive and negative feelings projected onto screens and at your face using electron guns, reflected dots, or energy discharge. on top of it all we are bombarded daily by radio waves and electromagnetic fields, which affect us in ways that we are not entirely aware. if you did not buy emotionally, you would only buy what you needed, not what you wanted. it might be a boring life but at least you would have enough money to retire comfortably.

today, zefrank's site blew up.

alternate reality games

read about the wonderful world of alternate reality games. i guess this is what people do to regain control in a world where they feel, consciously or not, that they do not have any control. or they do it to pass the time as they've already satisfied their needs for food and shelter.

The Class

I just want to be the first to say it-- The Class will be the Friends of the 00s.

Do your own research:

• popsugar says no.


• the cbs site. With Crane and Burrows on board (both of Friends), it's hard to see how it can't be. this may be the breakout show that puts jason (ritter) on par with his late father.


• review on sfist.


• doubtful review on tvfodder.


• variety.

Watching

I am an audience.

Prediction 2

Apple is meeting with Hollywood to offer movies on iTunes. In the future convergence of computers and Hollywood, will Apple buy Disney or will Disney buy Apple, now that Jobs is on the Board of both companies?

Apple's iTunes Movie Muddle

Prediction

In the future, all software will probably be created by a handful of companies, separated by those in the offline space and those in the online space, although the offline space won't be very big, it will be more specialized. The internet will become more prevalent, with wireless spreading it out so that you can get to it anywhere, from phones, handhelds, to kiosks at coffee shops.