Social Surplus

[Clodfobble]

Someday in the distant future, we will look back on digital TV recorders as the beginning of the end for TV. Common sense says it would lead to more TV watching, adding in the shows you would have otherwise missed, but in reality it means you cut out all the channel-surfing, and if you don't have one of your shows ready to watch, you wander off to do something else. I can't remember the last time live television was on in this house. Sometimes I even forget it exists. But the internet, that's still plenty full of mindless surfing material.