Bit By Bit, PCs Are Becoming TVs. Or is it the Other Way Around?
When you buy a can of Coke, you are paying a few cents for the drink and the can, and nanodollars for television advertising. No doubt, the means of financing the bits will look strange to our great-great grandchildren. But for today, it’s what makes television work. Eventually, we’ll find new economic models, probably based on advertising and transactions. Television will become more and more digital, no matter what. These are givens. So it makes no sense to think of the TV and the PC as anything but one and the same. It’s time TV manufacturers invested in the future, not the past – by making PCs, not TVs.