Imagine you're coming home from work one day and you decide you want to turn on the television to watch FOX cable news. As you sit on the recliner, you take your remote control and trying clicking on the channels and there's nothing on your television screen. It is blank. You turn the television on and all you see is a blank screen. You try to flip channels with your remote control but it's useless. Your television is to no avail. Your television is obsolete. Everything's now on internet.
I was talking to a man from church the other night. We were speaking a little about technology and I was asking him what does he think in regards to the future of television. He said one of these days he believes television will be internet based. I happened to agree with his assessment. I believe the day will come when all forms of communication will be hooked up to the internet. I believe television, the telephone industry, and even radio will be internet based. It will be linked to the internet. I believe in a few years if a person doesn't have access to internet in their home, they won't receive access to any of these services. I believe the medium of communication will be all linked to the internet. Anything that revolves around the communication industry will be available on the world wide web. That's my prediction.
I've felt for the last few years that the day will come when television as we know it today will be obsolete and it will be computerized. I'm going to take you to the world of imagination and let's take a look at the year 2020 and see what television's going to be like. I don't believe it will happen in 2020, I believe it will be sooner. However, I use 2020 as a target date for what I expect to have already taken place. Television as we know it today will become obsolete. The traditional desktop PC that you find at Wal-Mart and other retail stores will also become obsolete. In it's place there will be a new invention called the "computervision" for a lack of better terminology on my part. The computervision will be a combination of both television and a desktop PC. Television will be computerized. I've seen televisions at Wal-Mart and they have the appearance of a computer monitor. You can presently watch movies and certain television programs already on the internet. I've thought for a number of years television would eventually be computerized.
The computervision contains a hard drive, cable wires, a laser printer, speakers, and a monitor. The speakers will be embedded in the hard drive. You can purchase a monitor in different sizes. You can purchase a wide-screen monitor of different sizes and you can purchase a monitor the size of today's traditional desktop PC's. You can hook up more than one monitor to your hard drive if you so choose. It will also contain a keyboard, remote control, and a mouse. You can place your keyboard, mouse, and printer on a desk with layered shelves. The mouse, keyboard, printer, and monitor will hook up to your hard drive. Your hard drive will have three different CD slots. You have one slot where you can place a DVD on it. There's another slot you can play music CD's on. There's also another slot where you can use a writable CD for data storage.
The computervision will contain a number of different functions on it. There's a switch on both the hard drive and monitor you can flip on. Once you turn it on you will see the desktop with several different icons on it. You will have the option to access television. You can use your mouse to highlight the word "television" on your desktop and it'll feature an array of channels. Then you can use your mouse to highlight which channel you desire to view. Then it will take you to that channel and it will show the program the channel's currently playing. The computervision will house several different types of channels including those channels that were once formerly cable channels. There's other channels such as satellite that you can access. However, you'll have to request to have access to those channels and you'll pay a special fee on your monthly internet bill. Every household will have a monthly internet bill to pay. If you want special features on your computervision, then you'll pay extra on your internet bill.
The computervision will allow you to download all types of websites. It will have a download link on it and it will give you options on what you desire to download. You can click with the mouse or download what you want to see and listen to. You will have the ability to download music, movies, old television programs, and even YouTube clips from the internet. Many of the movies and old programs that are downloaded will require a fee to be paid with a credit or debit card. The computervision will also contain Microsoft applications and Apple MacIntosh applications. It will have all the traditional features that are currently on Microsoft such as Word, Outlook, Calendar, Windows Media, as well as new features. MacIntosh will contain the features they currently possess plus new features for the future. You will be able to use your keyboard to perform traditional Microsoft and MacIntosh functions. You'll also be able to utilize the printer to print whatever documents or graphics you desire to print. You will also be able to print from online as well. The computervision will also contain all kinds of video games which one can download. The games that are currently on Microsofts X-box will be incorporated in the computervision.
The computervision will also have access to various radio stations which you can highlight and click with your mouse. You will be able to access local radio stations in your area with the computer as well as satellite, XM, and other special radio stations. You will have to pay an extra fee on your internet bill each month if you desire special radio stations to be accessed. Also, live streaming will also be shown on the computervision. You will be able to see radio broadcasts being broadcast live streaming at the radio stations where the broadcast is taking place. There are currently talk radio programs which have live streaming on the internet such as the Jim Sumpter Show out of Salt Lake City, Utah. The radio stations will tune in clearly on the computervision. You won't have to worry about hearing static when listening to a station.
The portable laptops that are popular today are here to stay. They will continually be upgraded to meet the demands of tomorrow. They are very handy when it comes to conducting business. The new computervision will encompass tomorrow's technology. I'm positive they won't be known as the "computervision". However, I can't think of a better term to call the new televised computers of tomorrow. I do believe I'm on target when I say that the television and traditional desktop PC's of today will be obsolete in a few years. It will all be one one computer and it will all be on the internet. It will contain all kinds of accessories into one computer. All technology is being computerized and that's what it will be. All forms of electronic technology will be linked to the internet. There are no boundaries when it comes to technology. The computervision will be a spectacular computer.
2021 here. So far most of my TV is streaming video, which of course requires Internet. Internet hasn't quite replaced over the air signals, simply because there is still a lot of the rural US that doesn't have good quality internet signal.
ReplyDeleteLandline phones are almost a thing of the past, and the cell phones that replaced them are like mini-computers. There are apps that can do just about anything shy of beaming you aboard the Enterprise.
Your prophecy from 2009 hasn't quite come true but the technology in 2021 is not all that far from it!