This Year Means Screen Domination

Larry Mogelonsky | January 11, 2017

By Larry Mogelonsky, MBA, P. Eng. (www.lma.ca) Five hundred years from now when historians look back at the early modern era, they'll likely identify the advent of the screen-based technologies – that is, the still camera, the motion picture projector, the cathode ray tube and so on – as one of the most important discoveries right alongside the transistor, nuclear power and the theory of relativity. Understanding how humans lived prior to these inventions helps gives us some perspective. A friend of mine used to glibly remark, "A fire is nothing more than a caveman's TV," as we huddled together around a blazing pit late at n...