Speaking of technology, and these days who isn’t, how can any regular person deal with the biggest contradiction in retail (though not as big as between what they charge and what’s in my account).
From not only the advertisements but consumer journalism, your living room is supposed to have flat-screen LCD plasma four-wheel-projection HD televisions on the one robotic arm, and on the other steel limb, you also need a cell phone with camera and a video camera eye staring at you from your computer.
Cell-phone pictures are fuzzy. The ads promote increasing numbers of pixels, but what about the lens? It’s the width of a sardine’s whisker. You’re not going to want an 8×10 of your knee against the steering wheel with that (because you accidentally pressed the phone’s shutter while you were reaching around for your seat belt).
Today’s Wall Street Journal (subscription) advises how easy it is to video yourself via home computer. Those would be moving-mouth monologues. They’re as sharp as those screen captures that dominate YouTube (why iTunes but YouTube?). In other words, they look adequate on a monitor. Plug those into your entertainment center googolplex, and both the dish and cable companies will cancel your contract for fuzzy thinking.
Add into that the time it takes to download images, and now movies, into the home computer. … Waiting for entertainment to happen — just isn’t. -30-
