Technology Blog - Saturday

Today’s blog about technology will focus on one of my favorite Saturday morning traditions. This tradition involves waking up, planting myself on the couch, and watching college football. In the past, you didn’t have an option of watching games in High Definition. All the channels looked the same and one was fine with this. Then HDTV came along, and it is nearly impossible for me to now watch a game that isn’t in 1080p. This is really like the Matrix and the whole “ignorance is bliss” idea. Before HDTV, we had no knowledge of plasma’s and LCD’s and flat screens. There were just basic tube televisions and people were happy. Now the mere thought of a tube TV will frighten most tech savvy couch potatoes. I feel like many technologies are like this. The world was just fine before the internet, but now that we have it, it would be impossible to go back to a world without it. The same can be said for TV’s. People listened to the radio before TV and got a lot of entertainment from it. Then TV came along and people got hooked to it. Kids from my generation couldn’t imagine a time without TV or internet. We wouldn’t know what to do with ourselves. We would have to read books and listen to radio programs, and believe me, this doesn’t appeal to the average person my age and younger. So as I sit and watch Arkansas battle against Auburn on my 42 inch Samsung HDTV, I can’t help but ponder what technologies the future will bring us. 100 years ago, no one could have imaged the internet. What will the future bring? It’s almost scary to think about. For now, I’ll just keep watching the game.