The Story of Stuff
Fri, 15 May 2009 11:04 am – Posted by Mandy | 3 Comments
As Vicki noted, the television has undergone it’s most major makeover since it changed its colours in the mid-50s: it’s been supersized.
Yes, yes, across the world, these jumbo TVs dwarf cramped rooms, so much so, that viewers need to gently fold themselves into the room’s recesses, only to be relieved of their pins-and-needles by their TV’s cinematic scale and its newly acquired attention to detail.
We’ll need to super-size our homes, to fit out super-size televisions. Not surprisingly, it seems that the US is leading the charge – the size of the American house has doubled since the 1950s.
Our willingness to biff our old TVs for these energy-hogging plasma screen TVs has left environmentalists & conservationists reeling. Not only will our old televisions fill our landfills, these new plasma screen televisions can use as much electricity as a refrigerator, sapping our hydro-plants and power stations.