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It's quite conceivable that at this point in our history, of all the predictions to be found in the Star Trek canon, the one about television may be the prediction that is exceeded in timescale. Given the state of decay in traditional broadcast television, and the demographics surrounding television watching and production, it is entirely possible that television as experienced by the 20th Century will have ceased to exist by 2020. Consider the ability to time-shift programming has been increasingly available to people in the OECD countries, that Web-TV is making great in-roads, and as advertisers in the traditional format are being relegated to shared space within the same timeline instead of breaking up the timeline between programming and advertising, all of which has arisen within the last 10-15 years. Given the rate of acceleration of change, by 2020 we will likely have specific episodes of serial entertainment available to us whenever we want, with smart program management, able to recommend episodes of shows, based on knowledge of what free time we have upcoming, what activities we have had recently or will be about to have that will tie into suggested programming, etc. In other words, the future is about to get weirder rather than more like the ST:TOS universe I grew up hoping to live in. Bmcraec 20:07, April 10, 2011 (UTC)


 * While that is an interesting comment, posts on talk pages should be about changing the article they are attached to. If you wish to discuss Star Trek in general, I would suggest our MA Forums site, which is geared towards general discussion.--31dot 20:10, April 10, 2011 (UTC)