...broadcast world, not a 21stcentury network world. In Life After Television, Gilder puts it this way, "The computer industry is converging with the television...horse, the TV converged with the nickelodeon, the word-processor converged with the drafting board, and digital publishing converged with the linotype...

...culture clashes and synergies but about which partner will end up dominating the joint enterprise. "The computer industry is converging with the television...sense that the automobile converged with the horse," media theorist George Gilder has proclaimed in one of the brashest of such statements.15 It seems more...

...lesser appeal or interest? Many media experts clearly believe so. According to George Gilder (1994), The computer industry is converging with the television...that the automobile converged with the horse, the television converged with the nickelodeon, the word -process ing program converged with the typewriter,...

...Gilder prophesied, that computer technology would swallow TV, which he called a "retarded" medium. "The computer industry is converging with the television...sense that the automobile converged with the horse," he wrote. What concerned Murdoch was the computer TV's electronic programming guide (EPG), which could...

...this convergence between broadcasting and computing forecast by many futurologists. In his opinion, "the computer industry is converging with the television...same sense that the automobile converged with the horse."40 Nicholas Negroponte, computer scientist, director of the Media Lab at MIT, and editorialist...

...broadcast world, not a 21stcentury network world. In Life After Television, Gilder puts it this way, "The computer industry is converging with the television...horse, the TV converged with the nickelodeon, the word-processor converged with the drafting board, and digital publishing converged with the linotype...