Nanotechnology, hadron collider, three jis, four jis.. New words become familiar in a very short time. And the question naturally arises: will the "old" technologies survive in this race of inventions?
Only God has the prerogative to accurately foresee the future. People can only make forecasts based on the available data. And today they are. According to the information of the Gallup Media agency, the number of viewers of both federal and other entertainment TV channels in Russia is decreasing every year. It is curious that people are still reluctant to leave TV. The loss of TV channels per year is about a million people or less. Obviously, this same audience is simultaneously mastering the Internet, because its growth in network resources is many times greater than the loss of television. In just one year, the most popular projects such as Yandex, Vkontakte, Mail.ru can win about five million new visitors. New domain names are registered exponentially. By the way: the Internet audience already now exceeds the number of TV viewers by several million.
The statistics of international resources looks even more frightening. People still have a need to watch something. How else to explain the data on the video hosting YouTube, the most popular on the network - about 40 hours of video are uploaded there every minute. Videos on this resource have 2 billion views per day. And these are figures only for previous years. The fastest growth dynamics are in large social projects - Facebook, Twitter, Livejournal, etc.
Russian TV channels are trying to keep up with world trends. All of them could be viewed on a computer using a TV tuner before, now you just need to go online to view them. Private TV companies are also chosen to join the global network. The smallest producers of TV content live exclusively on the Internet, posting their programs there.
Against the background of this whole picture, the usual TV has only one advantage - the relative cheapness. Low-income families can usually afford a television with a minimum of federal channels. You will have to pay regularly for access to the Internet. And the necessary equipment still costs several times more than a TV, if we take modern and new, not used, models. But here, too, there is a tendency towards a decrease in prices both for access to the network and for all equipment, and the availability of the Internet is growing along with its users.
Another trend is the emergence of universal devices. Computer, telephone, graphic tablet, camera - all their functions are now combined into one. So far, the price of such devices is not too affordable for the middle class with a low salary. But technologies are developing very quickly, and they are getting cheaper just as quickly. A person spends more and more time on the Internet, receiving all the necessary information there both for work and for entertainment. Therefore, it is possible that in the foreseeable future, Russian rooms will become more spacious, because they will not have a TV.
