They may also surf with the TV on in the background, making data analysis more problematic. But the key point is that what they are doing on-line has nothing to do with what they are watching on the tube. He points out that movies and TV shows have little to gain by interactivity . I can see hitting the Nova web site after the TV show for futher enrichment, but I think it would be hard to design Nova-related internet content I would want to be accessing during the show. It is probably a good thing that Apple killed Pippin.
American society seems to be trending towards more expensive TV's and cheaper computers.
Stipp does'nt try to interpret why this is so. Maybe they only feel they need the simple word-processor level of computing power. Maybe they are sure they can keep a TV up and running but have had so many bad experiences at work with PC's that they don't want to risk a lot of money on one. Interestingly, although kids may use computers at school, only half of children use the computers in their homes at all . I have this great idea.