Talk:RyansWorld: Criminalization of television

From Future

[edit] Motivation for the Article

Hello Ryan

You wrote:

 "I don't consider my criminalization of television article 
 to be useless.  Television is useless, because people waste 
 time watching predictable programming, they gain weight while 
 watching television, and don't engage in their social lives. 
 User:RyanVG"

A lot of television is damaging - and becoming more so. With current trends computer generated Anime content is likely to make television even worse, not better. However, although a lot of television content is 'bad' there is also good television content too. I remember an excellent series about how the human body works called 'The Body in Question'. It was entertaining and educational - I learned more biology from that 12 episode series than I did in school. JC 13:31, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Discussion of Feb-2007 re-write

Tell me what you think of this re-write of your article.... JC 13:31, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

I like the re-write for this article. I think that it's really cool and more in-depth than my version. You have my permission to re-write this article in that particular fashion. RyanVG

Outcome: Posted as new article page

[edit] GJeremy's responses

Banning television would be like Bush starting a new draft to invade north Korea.
The ban would be worthless if they didn't ban DVDs as well.
If television was banned in 2040 there would be no television fans in 2157.

User:Gjeremy

Well for starters it wouldn't be Bush doing the banning... Is a ban on TV unthinkable? 20 years ago, could one have imagined cigarettes being banned?

There are many problems with this TV-ban scenario and it doesn't, yet, really hold up. There would need to be related bans on DVD, YouYube and so on. I personally see convergence of internet/TV/DVD as obvious - and then content filtering coming in.

Hard filtering - total ban on snuff movies, ban on info on how to make bombs and on how-to hijack jumbo jets.
Intelligent soft filtering - making 'undesirable' content appear low down in search lists, combined with tracking of who is accessing it, and control of how much access they get to undesirable content in a given time period - and what to.

The big unknown is what the content filtering will filter, and how that will be decided.

TV being treated like banned drugs is an outlandish idea - but a more moderate scenario about widespread 'filtering' wouldn't make the key points so well. So, I'm open to having an in-your-face scenario about a ban - even though I disagree with the scenario. To make a total ban scenario more credible, we would need some new elements, only hinted at on the main page. If computer AI, Scenario: Google as God, shows us that TV is hugely damaging to society, and if we'd come to trust and rely on that AI.... Far more likely anyway that in 10 years time 'TV' will be an irelevance, because everything will be on the internet.... JC 11:20, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

some more text was added here... See below... It probably belongs elsewhere...

[edit] Brainchip

In the year 2032 the Brainchip was invented. It was able to store all television shows up to the year 2020 due to its limited size. All other content could be downloaded off the internet wich had become the main sourse of television sense 2016 thanks to YouTube which started braodcasting in Highdef in 2012 and in hologram form by 2015. Cable and satilite television had be come obsolete. All people had to do was buy a monitor. The Brain chip also eliminated the need for monitors, computers, and video game consals. The user had a free virtual reality enviornment which he cold manipulate to his will.

[edit] Some improvments that can be made

I have createted a new article that I think better represents what will happen with Television Scenario:Television.