I understand that it cannot be anything because we just don't give a fuck. A lot of my life has passed and I just don't give a fuck about a lot of things. I couldn't give a fuck about the NBA. I don't give a fuck about holidays. I don't give a fuck about what happens on this season of Survivor. I don't even know if Survivor is still on because I don't even own a cable box anymore. I do not give a fuck about cable.
I lost a bet.
While downloading a movie onto our Xbox, a friend and I began to talk about the future of the entertainment medium, specifically movies and television. It wasn't about what kind of movies or television shows were going to be made or the general direction (at the time reality TV was everything, as it still seems to be), but about the medium in which this entertainment would be delivered. The future is now.
Sadly, the cable guy is probably going to lose his job within the next twenty years.
I don't think I ever considered that the world would be completely web based. It seems silly to me now, but I was so convinced that by this time, I would not be watching TV through downloads or streaming. While I doubt a majority of homes are going through Roku or AppleTV, most people watch television "On Demand," which is pretty much the exact same thing.
The dumbest thing about that bet is that On Demand existed at the time, and I still thought streaming wouldn't become the way everyone watched television.
The future is not very predictable, and that is very unsettling to me. I received a strong kick in the ass for not thinking about how my life will be different in the future.
I hope this blog can exist from time to time in the future. Keeping some distant people together. All we have to do is make it so.
