{"id":2148050,"date":"2016-04-12T11:55:35","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T15:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/2016\/04\/12\/the-visual-two-dimensional-medium-of-tv\/"},"modified":"2016-04-12T11:55:35","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T15:55:35","slug":"the-visual-two-dimensional-medium-of-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/2016\/04\/12\/the-visual-two-dimensional-medium-of-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"The visual two dimensional medium of TV&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The visual, two-dimensional medium of TV and film are still the easiest and cheapest way to sell a story or share your vision with the world. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There\u2019s a reason the cable companies still exist: people are too lazy to hunt and kill their own content and, more important, the passive medium of television allows for maximum consumption with a minimum of effort.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Remember: to be truly ubiquitous a technology has to ruin our lives. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The cellphone didn\u2019t become ubiquitous until everyone around you saw the need to own a glowing slab of black metal. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Internet didn\u2019t take off until everyone around you saw the need to play Farmville until they died. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The television didn\u2019t take off until everyone in the world realized it was infinitely better than reading. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As it stands VR won\u2019t ruin our lives. Instead it will just mildly amuse us until something better comes along.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/medium.com\/@johnbiggs\/vr-is-a-dud-a96470bb6455<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The visual, two-dimensional medium of TV and film are still the easiest and cheapest way to sell a story or share your vision with the world. &#8220;There\u2019s a reason the cable companies still exist: people are too lazy to hunt and kill their own content and, more important, the passive medium of television allows for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[618,619,227,226,617,518],"views":727,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148050"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2148050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2148050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2148050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2148050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}