The TV of the future

The TV of the future will be non-existent. This is the only condition of possibility for the future.

Explanation

We always imagine future people as being superior to us. (This means we have properly acquired the myth of the progress.) If future people are superior, they must necessarily be smarter than us. Constrained by the myth of the progress, which we’re going to inoculate in their heads, they will feel the urge to be more intelligent than we are. So they’ll give up on the TV. (I pittifylly look at the science-fiction shows presenting the future households turning, just like ours, around TV sets – wide and flat plasma screens). But, anyway, one shouln’t dramatize the future people’s situation, they’ll have a much more exciting Internet then ours.

Additional predictions

Telephones (fixed or mobiles), walkmans, computers (desktop, notebook or handheld) will also disappear. The people of the future will have, embeded in their brains, some very dense chips (imagine a powerful computer compressed to a 1 cubic millimeter size, taking advantage of the neural sensory circuits, imagine an Internet that was addressed to all your senses), and these chips will satisfy all their communication and instruction needs.

On the other hand, this scenario is rather a consequence of the myth of the progress (which we never question). In reality, the future will be similar to the riots in French suburbs in 2005. They’ll live a perpetual urban war. They’ll live in police states. And they’ll be cured of the myth of the progress.

A household of the future

PS Let’s go back, for a moment, to the TV of the future. If it will exist, the current sets will undoubtly disappear; the future television won’t address to senses any more, but to people’s brains; when you can stimulate the sensory centers, it is not worth the trouble to stimulate the senses. The people of the future will necessarily be insensitive.