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Sony, Matsushita, others to start selling Internet televisions next year.

great ! We’ve spent half of our lives in front of the idiot box, and now they want to take the other half ? No way ! I wonder what they’ll call us now, ‘mashed couch potatoes’. Hehe.

just imagine, spending the next 10 years in-front of the TV. Scary…not until they invent the toilet sofa, you will still have to get up and leave your life (TV) behind. With the things you can do with the internet today, you could practically just stay at home and earn a living. People have done it.

but what impact would it have on the kids these days ? 1 minute, your child is watching Cartoon Network, the next he’s getting live RSS feeds from CNN and BBC. What ? Even you don’t go to CNN or BBC. What happend to the good old days, when the sound of the dial-up modem is like music to the ears, when you could make yourself a snack and get a cup of cofee while waiting for a page to load and when the news was delivered to your door step every morning in cold, hard, physical form.

nowadays, everything is chop-chop. Don’t get me wrong, gathering information and getting things done at the speed of light, is wonderful. But people nowadays need to take time off and enjoy life, before we wipe-out ourselves.