Media Overload
I’ll admit it – I’m an Olympics junkie. Our living room setup allows us for picture-in-picture-in picture (yes, 3-way), a DVR that records 2 channels at a time, and a stand alone DVD recorder that can record yet another channel. I’m feeling a little ZooTV as of late with the amount of athleticism my living room technology can deliver to me. As Beijing is 12 hours ahead of us on the East Coast of the US, most of the live broadcasts happen during sleeping hours. The best part of having the DVR/DVD technology is the ability to fast forward through sports that, well, just aren’t that interesting to me. I can watch 9 hours of coverage in less than an hour and get caught up on everything I’m interested in. Fascinating.
If anyone has been following technology and U2’s resident scientist, The Edge, then what my living room is delivering to me currently is somewhat old news. Digging through @U2’s news archives, I found these two transcripts from a chat The Edge gave to media outlets back in 2000 where he talks about the “future” of communication delivery and how he had been a part of the discussions from back in the early 90s.
All I can say is – dressage is not very rock and roll, so in the words of The Fly, “NEXT!” Ah – men’s water polo…now that’s even better than the real thing =)
Silvrlvr said,
August 16, 2008 @ 9:10 am
Perhaps Edge should have a chat with Paul McGuinness.
“We’re not so paranoid about the issue of copyright ownership and all that. We actually feel that, okay, it is actually completely turning on its head a lot of the principles of how musicians get paid for what they do but it’s still throwing off huge benefits in terms of promotion and publicity for bands. We’re looking at the positives, we’re looking at the way that we can make it work for us and not concentrate on the negatives. I don’t think it serves anybody to panic and to get all paranoid about, ya know, your livelihood being eaten up by this new way of communicating. I think bands will always be able to sell records, they’ll always be able go on the road…and I think the Internet should be seen as a separate thing. Ya know, “What can we do with this? This is exciting!”