Comments on: Jeremy Paxman on Disappearing Television http://educationaltechnology.ca/couros/862 rants & resources from an open educator Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:34:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dave Ferguson http://educationaltechnology.ca/couros/862/comment-page-1#comment-148555 Dave Ferguson Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:46:16 +0000 http://educationaltechnology.ca/couros/862#comment-148555 He'd have to adapt the speech somewhat here in the U.S., where the networks seem bent on inventing less-and-less-real "reality" TV. I suppose in the right circumstances, you can make money with a program centered on Lindsay Lohan's mother. And if there's enough money, I guess someone's going to try and make it. Paxman's really talking about Nicholas Negroponte's atoms and bits. Of course (switching metaphors), technophiliacs have been known to rhapsodize so much about the cart that they seem to forget to ask what someone else might want to transport. A lecture isn't automatically valuable to you because it's a podcast; it's just portable. He’d have to adapt the speech somewhat here in the U.S., where the networks seem bent on inventing less-and-less-real “reality” TV. I suppose in the right circumstances, you can make money with a program centered on Lindsay Lohan’s mother. And if there’s enough money, I guess someone’s going to try and make it.

Paxman’s really talking about Nicholas Negroponte’s atoms and bits. Of course (switching metaphors), technophiliacs have been known to rhapsodize so much about the cart that they seem to forget to ask what someone else might want to transport. A lecture isn’t automatically valuable to you because it’s a podcast; it’s just portable.

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