{"id":14881,"date":"2011-02-08T17:07:45","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T22:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=14881"},"modified":"2011-02-08T17:07:54","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T22:07:54","slug":"what-television-is-really-becoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/02\/08\/what-television-is-really-becoming\/","title":{"rendered":"What television is *really* becoming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/insidedigitalmedia.com\/what-television-is-really-becoming\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>What television is *really* becoming<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; by Philip Leigh at Inside Digital Media, Inc.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Excerpts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Nicholas Negroponte who founded MIT\u2019s Media Lab correctly put it sixteen years ago when he wrote in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Being-Digital-Nicholas-Negroponte\/dp\/0679762906\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1297188065&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">Being Digital<\/a><\/em> \u201c\u2026the future open-architecture television is the personal computer, period.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Televisions will become giant windows into the Internet Cloud.<\/strong><\/span> They\u2019ll transform into electronic hearths through which family members  gather to remotely share communications and social experiences as much  as to watch videos. In addition to watching \u201cTV\u201d shows and movies,  they\u2019ll use future televisions for video phone calls, FaceBook updates,  news feeds, interactive gaming, and knowledge quests within the nearly  infinite mind of the Internet. Moreover, such features will augment one  another. For example, FaceBook socializing will alert us to new videos  our friends are watching.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The television-as-Internet-window will ultimately have a more  intuitive interface.<\/span><\/strong> It\u2019s likely to provide a combination of icon-apps  as well as Internet browsing. Although the man-machine interface will  continue to offer a mouse-and-keyboard for a while we\u2019ll also use a  gesture sensitive interface like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_ET6PqZtYd4\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft Kinect demonstrated in this video<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What television is *really* becoming &#8212; by Philip Leigh at Inside Digital Media, Inc. Excerpts: Nicholas Negroponte who founded MIT\u2019s Media Lab correctly put it sixteen years ago when he wrote in Being Digital \u201c\u2026the future open-architecture television is the personal computer, period.\u201d &#8230; Televisions will become giant windows into the Internet Cloud. They\u2019ll transform [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,37,153,40,466],"tags":[584,587,746,675,132],"class_list":["post-14881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-convergence","category-future","category-interface-design","category-technologies-for-your-home","category-television","tag-convergence","tag-future","tag-gesture-gesturing","tag-telepresence","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14881"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14885,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14881\/revisions\/14885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}