So, what if television was never invented or never became popular? How will this affect the world today? Would it be better if there were no television or would it be about the same?
It’s not really possible not to invent.
Does Not prevent us from considering this scenario.
However without TV I imagine the world would rely on traditional forms of entertainment, theater, radio, cinema etc. However the big problem is Television introduced a wholly new idea, it was the first mass information platform. For the first time people were able to learn through a very powerful medium, sight. The phrase 'I'll believe it when I see it' could pretty much sum up a huge chunk of our current learning experience, you can still learn by reading and by listening but thats just taking on someone elses understanding, when you see something for yourself the understanding is entirely your own and much easier to process. Television was in effect the first social media.
Does Not prevent us from considering this scenario.
However without TV I imagine the world would rely on traditional forms of entertainment, theater, radio, cinema etc.
However the big problem is Television introduced a wholly new idea, it was the first mass information platform.
For the first time people were able to learn through a very powerful medium, sight.
Television was in effect the first social media.
no internet.
True, but we should consider the scenario with something approaching intellectual honesty.
And here's where the weirdness begins...
Television is nearly as old as radio and relies on much of the same technological advances. If you want to throttle television in it's cradle, you going to adversely effect radio and a lot of other technologies, yet you blithely assume Fibber McGee and Molly along with the Red and Blue Networks will be chugging along unaffected.
Score a massive laugh point. Penny newspapers were the first mass information platform, they even had pictures. Radio was another mass information platform too and one that was used quite effectively for all sorts of purposes.
Learn by sight? I suppose when you read you're not looking at letters, words, pictures, diagrams, and stuff like that.
No, the first mass social media was the penny post.
The social consequences of "No television" amount to a fart in hurricane compared to the technological consequences of the same.
Given that the ARPANET and other early networking technologies (and a fair proportion of network technologies today) relied on cables rather than wireless transmission, and given that many early computer terminals were effectively teletypes, I would doubt that there would be no internet at all.
When Baird invented the television the Beeb was up and running and so I presume were other radio stations elsewhere. TV at least in England didn't really take off until the 50s (the coronation of Elizabeth being a major spur) with the BBC broadcasts before WW2 being confined to the London area and tvs to the rich. It was shut down during WW2 (were there tv stations in the states then?) .
So I can't honestly see much changing until the 50s/early 60s and by then somebody would have come up with a tv of some sort perhaps when transistors were being commonly used instead of valves.
It might have meant that the BBC was challenged by commercial radio stations earlier.
Well if we had no tv then there are no console games. Also we might have a generation that might still read actual books, go outside and play, and actually talk to one another rather than text, twittter, and facebook in its stead.
Also we might have a generation that might still read actual books, go outside and play, and actually talk to one another rather than text, twittter, and facebook in its stead.
although, i try to imagine such a world were, I sit on my "computer" Telex I/O terminal,
reading kilometer of paper printout of this Forum daily output…
Are there enough trees in world, who can take this gigantic demand on print Paper ?
belief me they switch soon to TV screen, do lack of paper...