Computers
So…. I’ve been thinking today, about a few things, one of which being computers. I was looking over at my iBook today. I saw it resting on its iCurve and thought, I wonder if this’ll look ugly in a few years. If you look back at old movies or TV shows and you see a computer, you’d probably go, “Man! Computers back then were butt-UGLY!” As computers and their designs progress, though, I wonder if in the future, my iBook will look just as butt-ugly as those older computers did.
I remember when the original iMac came out. I think I saw them in a magazine ad or something. I was like, “WOW!” That was like, the hottest computer on the face of the earth. Then, at least. Now, when I’m looking around my school which still uses the original iMacs, their design seems kind of old and worn out. Maybe in a few more years, they’ll even be considered tacky and ugly.
I wonder if in a few years I’ll look back at pictures of my room, see my computer and go, “were computers really like that back then? Goodness, that’s ugly!”
PBS
Another thing I’ve been thinking about, you know, just out of the blue, is PBS. Is it really that educational? Sure, a lot of the shows are about reading and books, and some of them are even brought to you by the number “12″ and the letter “Z”…. but are they really educational? When my sister and I get home from school, we usually sit down in front of the TV for an afternoon of supposedly educational TV- don’t laugh, we don’t have cable. Now, shows like Liberty’s Kids, Arthur, Reading Rainbow, and Zoom are entertaining and educational to a certain extent. One of the line’s in Zoom’s opening song is “and if you like what you see, turn off your TV and do it!” Do kids really turn of their TVs after one episode, though? Probably not. Right after one show comes another and then another and by the time a kid has watched two hours of television, that supposedly educational stuff is long forgotten.
So….. just thought I’d mention some of this stuff. Fill up this lonely little blog a bit….