A fairy tale ...Convergence Culture- Once upon a time...
Generally,
people were happy in that land and if they weren't, they knew who to complain
to. They also knew it wouldn't help much, but they still complained even if
they did not demand new or better services. They only new what they were
getting and it was not worse than any other place they knew of. Things were
simple: If you were looking for current news, you could watch the one channel
or read the one newspaper. And whatever they did not find in it because the
people at the channel or at the newspaper did not think it was worse including,
then well they would not mind, because they did not know.
However,
there were some people that wanted more, wanted choice, wanted some control
over what they consumed. As well as the little girl. Hence, she set out to see
what lies beyond the one channels and the phone company and it took here like
20 years to find what she was looking for.
And it was
indeed worth her waiting:
She has
switched the phone company like 4 times already and loves the fact that she can
do it! And, she can watch movies and even tinker with them herself and publish
them and she can watch as many channels as she likes from all over the world.
And not only on Television. No! She can watch them on her PC, in her car, and
on her cell phone, which luckily cannot
only be used to call and receive calls wherever she is, she can also sms, mms,
serve the net, download tunes or do her banking...and so she lives happily ever
after?
No- because
there is always, better, more practical, multifunctional, user friendly,
portable, the latest, interactive new stuff...devices, integrations, technologies,
hardware...so there is no real THE END in sight...but I will make sure to upgrade
it if I get a better version (;
