Conversation

One of the biggest disappointments of widespread prominence of internet connected TVs in the home is the lack of creativity they’ve been brought in with. 1/3 of the population has a digital canvas, a display for any art/video they can possibly imagine, and we get the smart TV
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You could be live-streaming video from a rainforest, switching biomes every week, learning with your children and comparing notes on what you observe
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you could be shifting through the a few of the works of Picasso’s cubist period in one month, and then his surrealist the next, studying in a live in gallery
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You could be watching Kochari, Armenia’s traditional group dance, or learning textile practices like Jamdani weaving from Bangladesh, listening to Tsiatta poetic dueling from Cyprus, or watching Nôgaku theatre from Japan
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I can’t decide if people like to critique & complain about the use of technology as lacking meaningful depth & culture because they utterly lack imagination or because of unintentional imaginative negligence that’s a side effect of being bombarded with unlimited potential
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All the ideas above are also based off of things that are 100% possible to do with ease the way TVs are currently configured, although the experience can be a little ugly because people lack the imagination to push these uses into prominence
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This is why the Samsung frame TV is good actually — technology should be beautiful, it should allow for beauty to be expected from it.
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The “the greatest good we can demand from technologists is a new __tech__ paradigm” discourse is a little tired, particularly bc there’s a failure to demand the type of paradigm we want, but it continues for good reason- people hate being sold technology without implicit ideals
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Apple visualized how they brought the good life closer for the average person. Apple’s product announcements were so loved because they broadcasted a rallying cry for technologists, a state of the union for the development of tools to help us live better lives
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