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What's going on in Taejon, at the Korea Research Institute, is a very basic example of what could be the most interactive technology of the future: brain-computer interfaces. Early computers were controlled by cardboard punch cards; the first PCs demanded typed DOS commands; the mouse gave us a graphic interface. Will we one day be able to enter the world of computing with no external mechanical intermediary whatsoever - in other words, just by thinking? Researchers around the globe are working on the problem. The Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, for example, has developed the Adaptive Brain...
This may well be the future of entertainment. Fast two-way connections over PCs, TVs and mobile phones are converging, plunging us into a world where viewers become part of the programming. Once platforms switch from analog to digital technology, interactive applications like personalized programs, chat rooms, takeout food orders and online banking will become interactive options for your TV. The size of the potential market is immense: there are already 1.1 billion households worldwide with televisions. Today, about 34 million get digital TV; according to a report by Merrill Lynch, that number will jump to 221 million within four...
...which reaches more than 340 million households in 150 countries, chose France and Sweden as the launchpads. Penetration of digital cable is higher in those countries than elsewhere. Since streaming media via the Internet Protocol Standard is not yet possible over TV, MTV Live will initially air over PCs, then migrate to television after their standards merge. "It is one way to stay ahead of the curve," says William Roedy, president of MTV Networks International...
...While Europe is in the digital TV vanguard, MTV is trying to leverage the most advanced applications in every region, treating each as a kind of interactive television laboratory. In Japan, which leads the world in mobile phone applications, viewers of Select MTV vote via text messaging or PCs for their favorite tunes. But because the television platform is not yet fully digital, their votes don't appear instantly on the TV screen. Shoji Doyama, chairman of MTV Japan, says that by year's end the company plans to introduce "some interactivity into all of its TV programming, permitting voting...
...only that, but it is constantly updating itself through the phone line with one call every night while you sleep. I wake up in the morning and the operating system has rid itself of bugs. I wish my PCs would do that...