Jiro
27d ago
Television already went into diminishing returns at 1080p and the rise of streaming, never mind 4K, and can't improve much more. Video games also have gone into diminishing returns, which is why there's nothing original on the PS5. I don't believe for a moment that we're getting significant VR.
Someone could have told Gutenberg the same thing about books that you're telling me about TV improvements. To which the answer is that it would take hundreds of years to get mass market paperbacks, a hundred more to get ereaders, and those aren't improvements in books so much as they are general improvements that happened to be useful for books.
Jiro
28d ago
And even with all the problems of modern streaming TV services, the 5 inch smartphone screen is color, plays at high resolution, lets you watch programs when you want (mostly), and has a huge variety compared to a 1950s TV. And you can afford to have one for several family members.
Jiro
28d ago
While the restaurant problerm is exaggerated, I'm not so sure about the fast foods. There were fast food restaurants in 1959, but a lot of the fast food types we have today didn't exist--the variety was less (I suppose the same also goes for the restaurants). Also, pokebowls are fast casual and that category of restaurant didn't exist in 1959 (never mind pokebowls specifically).
The whole "don't follow illegal orders. Why am I saying this? No reason" kerfluffle was not long ago.
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