Re: GUI's versus TVs (was Re: SEF did it again)

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From: Vivek Khera
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 15:15

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In article <FOX.92Apr12092603@graphics.nyu.edu> fox@cs.nyu.edu (David Fox) writes:

   I agree with you about GUI's and command lines, but I think that *on
   the balance* the world *would* be a better place without TV.  By TV I
   don't mean video monitors, and I don't mean video monitors attached to
   VCRs, and I don't mean video monitors attached to a digital video
   database.  I mean TV as we know it, programmed to maximize advertizing
   revenues from millions of simultaneous viewers.  I couldn't live
   without video monitors, but I'd like to try living without TV.  (And I
   haven't gotten up the will power to try.  Yet.)

   -david

Just think:  Without TV "as we know it", there wouldn't be all these
nice raster-graphics monitors at such low cost.  Ever wonder why
vector-graphics displays never made it big?  Mass production.

I'm not claiming that what's on TV is generally useful (unless you
watch the Monitor Channel) but the technology was indeed very
important to our industry.
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