If TV Had Never Been Invented...

TheScribbler

Imagine your world if Logie Baird had never inspired the idea of television and it had not been invented. What kind of world would we occupy?

Come on people come back with your perspectives of what the world might be like

Agent Smith

I would have done better in school. America wouldnt have had such an infulence on us.

seanybiker

I would be wondering why people are going around with camera's and having noting to play them on.

Ann22

My mam says when she was a child they'd no tv..only the odd person even had a wireless. People would visit each other more and stories were told around the fire. Nowadays if there was no tv, assuming there were no computers either, newspapers and radio would be our only means of mass advertising and hearing news from around the world. As for entertainment, we'd just have to amuse ourselves. Back to the way things were in the war years I suppose.

ghost_ie

The tv in our house was only turned on for the news at 9pm, or for the westerns (I'm talking 60's here) Dad liked. Apart from that, it stood in the corner and we never thought about it. We read a lot, talked and played card or board games. Funnily enough, now that the children have married and left home, I find I rarely watch the television. I listen to the radio and prefer reading a book to watching tv

briany

I'm sure some equally nefarious medium would have been invented, I mean I'm using a potentially worse one right now. In any case, Cinemas would have been more popular and not hit with that gradual decline that people from the 60's and 70's seem to like telling me about. Anyway I understand what you're trying to say but you could never have stopped the invention of television or a television like medium. I'm sure that if you researched its history in depth enough you'll find that there were several early pioneers including Baird but maybe his design just happened to be commercially viable. I read recently that Tesla is arguably the inventor of radio, not Marconi so theres always these little tributaries that lead to big technological breakthroughs. They are quite unstoppable. What would we be doing if radio had never been invented? Probably watching alot more TV! :P

uch

I'd have 23 kids

TheScribbler

Rather you than me. Two was enough with or without a TV

uch

Sure you'd have to occupy yourself

TheScribbler

Oh that was easy

mukki

if tv wasn't invented my playstation3 would be useless


just kidding....


think people would be out and about more getting plenty of exercise in the fresh air......


and hence more likey to get kidnapped, killed, stuck in a well, etc, but people would never hear that these terribal things (no rte news) were happening.... thats until it happened they get killed, and by then it would be to late

TheScribbler

Well there may be no TV but wind up radio would be there. So you could still hear the news

komodosp

I would say there'd be a lot more social interaction anyway... Couches I suppose would face the fireplace instead of the corner. Richard Nixon would have beaten John F Kennedy in the American presidency in the 60s so all those social reforms that we talk about John being responsible for might not have happened till later... Not that we'd care anyway because America would be just another country to us.

War would probably be a lot worse... with even less respect for civilians than there is now.

Cinemas would be more prolific and I suppose there would be a lot more low-budget movies than there is now, and a lot less block-busters..

Capt'n Midnight

TheScribbler wrote: »

Imagine your world if Logie Baird had never inspired the idea of television and it had not been invented. What kind of world would we occupy?

Come on people come back with your perspectives of what the world might be like

TV would have been invented - Baird , invented something not quite unlike TV but it was a technelogical dead end.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephonoscope


Electification is what allowed it to happen

TheScribbler

You are correct, the approach ultimately adopted for the development of TV was not that developed by Baird, but he was the first to demonstrate that television pictures were possible.

But if it had never been invented, just think of all that time we could have have saved watching soaps. We could actually go to see football matches rather than switch them on. The birth rate might well have risen much more too, but that is another story