I think it will be interesting to see what happens when all over-the-air television broadcasts become digital. Even though there have been innumerable public service announcements and a concerted ad campaign by the FCC I think there will be a huge uproar. The same people who are still watching TV with rabbit ears are (by and large) the same people who are on the wrong side of the "digital divide". There are simply two kinds of people in this country: those who are at least somewhat comfortable with computers and who are linked to the greater society via the Internet and those who either can't afford a computer or are unwilling to embrace the future. Time is running out for the Luddites. When their screens fill with snow and they are finally totally cut off will they accept the inevitable or will they get in their wagons and trot to Washington en masse and demand a return to simpler times?
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I disagree that rabbit ears are an indicator of digital divide. I still occasionally revert back to rabbit ears. When money's tight, cable is the first thing to go... way before internet access!!
PEOPLE STILL USE RABBIT EARS? I thought cable and internet was pretty much all bundled these days, and also that these things are a matter of affordability, not choice (except for maybe like 17 hippies). I do know people with no cable, but they refer to it as having "no TV." Whatever they watch, they watch on DVD or the internets.
My mom has a friend named John who has NEVER been on the internet. He says he'd rather go out and do something than type into a computer. John doesn't need it so doesn't use it. He does have cable though and he always pets me because he loves cats.
Sometimes it scares me to seed how hostile the movers and shakers are to the beings.
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