Well there is always your AI girlfriend and AI friend group with the AI generated podcast breaking down the episode. (jk, sort of)
> Most of the reason people watch TV or movies is for the shared experience that you can discuss with others
I wouldn't say that. Most of the reason people watch TV is to kill time.
To be honest, I find my discussions with friends about TV shows on the decline just because of the fact that everyone is watching there own thing. So many shows and people watch them at their own pace. so most of the discussions go like this "Hey have you seen that new Netlix show X?" "No I haven't, maybe I'll check it out". Or "Oh yeah, i saw that a year ago, Its good but I don't remember the details".
Before Streaming when you had a set schedule for TV, it was way easier to discuss things because people were forced to watch programs on a certain day and there was more limited content. This led to "water cooler" conversations about what the previous nights show.
I bet if you graphed (discussions had about tv shows) / (hours watched of tv shows) that graph would trend down.
Think about little kids. My niece watches cocomelon all day long. She doesn't need to discuss it with anybody. She just wants an unlimited stream.
> I wouldn't say that. Most of the reason people watch TV is to kill time.
How annoying to see something amazing and then not be able to find anyone who also experienced it that you can ... what word mean's commiserate but in a positive way?
I'm thinking now about the astronauts that walked on the Moon and had only the few others. I think one of the astronauts bemoaned having gone to this amazing place, like some kind of wild vacation, but not being able ever to return.
You can just talk to your AI companion about it. If you involve another human there's always a chance somebody might be slightly bored or inconvenienced, so we want to avoid that.
Same about music. In good ol' days, one would meet a friend to listen to cool new music together, share CDs with mp3s etc
It's actually really weird. I wanted to buy my niece some CDs for Christmas to discover 90s music, but kids don't listen music from CDs anymore. They don't have devices even. Should I buy her a Spotify gift card and send her links to Spotify via Whatsapp? It's so strange.
Indeed. That is why in our family we watch broadcast or timeshifted tv and no netflix. Still it is hard to find other families like that so little tv stuff to talk about at work during lunch.
> Most of the reason people watch TV or movies is for the shared experience that you can discuss with others
I wouldn't say that. Most of the reason people watch TV is to kill time.
To be honest, I find my discussions with friends about TV shows on the decline just because of the fact that everyone is watching there own thing. So many shows and people watch them at their own pace. so most of the discussions go like this "Hey have you seen that new Netlix show X?" "No I haven't, maybe I'll check it out". Or "Oh yeah, i saw that a year ago, Its good but I don't remember the details".
Before Streaming when you had a set schedule for TV, it was way easier to discuss things because people were forced to watch programs on a certain day and there was more limited content. This led to "water cooler" conversations about what the previous nights show.
I bet if you graphed (discussions had about tv shows) / (hours watched of tv shows) that graph would trend down.
Think about little kids. My niece watches cocomelon all day long. She doesn't need to discuss it with anybody. She just wants an unlimited stream.