The Web has made me a better programmer, a better musician, a better debater, gave me a better understanding of mathematics, kept my English skills from rusting, and a lot more. Wikipedia or the instructional videos on YouTube are miles above TV in usefulness. Also, TV doesn't enable me to talk with intelligent people across the ocean.
Would you exchange the Web for a TV with 1000 channels?
They serve different purposes. My point was that there's good and bad in everything.
It would be a really hard decision between TV and the web, not sure which I'd choose TBH.
Re:Poll: Do you own a working television?
by trafficlight on Friday July 17, 2009 @02:31AM
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Thanks to the History Channel I know everything there is to know about World War II.
One immediate difference that comes to mind is that the internet is a two-way medium, whereas television is a one-way medium.
That doesn't mean that any given part of the internet will be better, but it does mean that the internet has the potential to be far better.
I think "surfing the net" for hours on end is a step above channel surfing, but still definitely a step below purposeful action on a project you're working on.
You could easily call the internet the 'idiot net'. People under the delusion that their opinion matters, mindlessly posting inane useless comments like this one.
Many of the biggest sites out there serve no real use other than to waste peoples time.