Comments on: Television Anarchy http://spaceagewasteland.com/television-anarchy/ technology where little exists... hacking the simple life Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:28:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 By: JV http://spaceagewasteland.com/television-anarchy/#comment-11 JV Fri, 25 Mar 2005 16:44:56 +0000 http://spaceagewasteland.com/television-anarchy/#comment-11 DVRs are nice because you can compress your normal TV time by 20-30%. Hit pause when the show starts, go do something else for 20 minutes, come back and blast through all the commercials. The downside is that you can end up trying to squeeze four hours of tv shows into three, rather than three hours into two or what have you. Technology that's supposed to make our lives more relaxed usually ends up making us busier, because we want to do more with more, when we should be doing less with more. Just like word processors, cell phones, internet, you name it. The tech ends up owning us instead of vice versa. DVRs are nice because you can compress your normal TV time by 20-30%. Hit pause when the show starts, go do something else for 20 minutes, come back and blast through all the commercials. The downside is that you can end up trying to squeeze four hours of tv shows into three, rather than three hours into two or what have you.

Technology that’s supposed to make our lives more relaxed usually ends up making us busier, because we want to do more with more, when we should be doing less with more. Just like word processors, cell phones, internet, you name it. The tech ends up owning us instead of vice versa.

]]> By: Karen http://spaceagewasteland.com/television-anarchy/#comment-12 Karen Fri, 25 Mar 2005 22:26:12 +0000 http://spaceagewasteland.com/television-anarchy/#comment-12 I completed a full month of "media deprivation" in high school. I completed a full month of “media deprivation” in high school.

]]> By: Josh http://spaceagewasteland.com/television-anarchy/#comment-13 Josh Sat, 26 Mar 2005 01:45:20 +0000 http://spaceagewasteland.com/television-anarchy/#comment-13 JV - excellent point about tech owning us instead of vice versa. Another point I think that's worth mentioning that sometimes lofi is just better and easier. That being said, I'm not much of a TV watcher. I watch Survivor each week with my wife (I guess it's the equivalent to your LOST). Beyond that, I don't watch it much at all. I don't watch any other 'set' programs (i.e., things I've just *got* to see weekly), and I rarely watch movies. I tend to waste a lot of my 'downtime' on reading or on the Internet. (Imagine that...) JV - excellent point about tech owning us instead of vice versa. Another point I think that’s worth mentioning that sometimes lofi is just better and easier.

That being said, I’m not much of a TV watcher. I watch Survivor each week with my wife (I guess it’s the equivalent to your LOST). Beyond that, I don’t watch it much at all. I don’t watch any other ’set’ programs (i.e., things I’ve just *got* to see weekly), and I rarely watch movies.

I tend to waste a lot of my ‘downtime’ on reading or on the Internet. (Imagine that…)

]]> By: J. Todd Leffar http://spaceagewasteland.com/television-anarchy/#comment-209 J. Todd Leffar Tue, 23 Aug 2005 17:53:22 +0000 http://spaceagewasteland.com/television-anarchy/#comment-209 a) My wife and I don't have cable either. It's been a glorious thing, freeing up our time to do something more productive / fun / enriching / etc. We'll watch maybe 30-60 minutes of something on the local networks at night just before falling asleep, and that's about it. b) We've also given up TV entirely (among other things) for Lent the last couple years. a) My wife and I don’t have cable either. It’s been a glorious thing, freeing up our time to do something more productive / fun / enriching / etc. We’ll watch maybe 30-60 minutes of something on the local networks at night just before falling asleep, and that’s about it.

b) We’ve also given up TV entirely (among other things) for Lent the last couple years.

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