By the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century,
the impact of computer technology on television was already promising to be
nothing short of revolutionary. Yet people seemed only able to grasp the contours
of an upcoming basic shift both in how television would come to be delivered
and how programming would be financed and presented. Young adults were on the
leading crest of the wave. Even by 2012, they typically watched television programming
from laptops and even ipads rather than television sets. Meanwhile, an older
demographic was learning how to integrate television screens with the internet
such that movies could be downloaded on a laptop and shown on a larger screen,
completely bypassing commercial television even stored on “tibo” from interlarding
the home.
The full essay is at "Commercial Breaks as Antiquated?"
The full essay is at "Commercial Breaks as Antiquated?"
