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Originally Posted by Jay200MPH
If you could magically remove the television from history but leave all its "useful" spinoff technologies (i.e. a good chunk of modern electronics!), I don't think society would be any more productive. Although the sports equipment and games industries might be a bit bigger.
- J
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A lot of funding for research is gathered through media attention. The more people hear about a subject, the more likely they will become interested and invest. With only radio and newspapers I doubt we would be where we are today. So in fact I think we would be less productive.
And I would have missed Star Trek, that's even worse!
One invention I can do without is mobile phones actually, which started as an excellent invention in terms of communication has now become a torture tool with all those 'funny' ringtones and the fact that nowadays it's hard to talk to someone for 30 mins without being interrupted. My mobile phone is turned off most of the time nowadays, much more relaxed..