As I sit watching Kerrang's "Top 100 Air Guitar Songs" something miraculous has happened.
I've seen the future. And it's recursive.
Almost
every program on tv seems to be a "Top 50" or "Top 100". This is genius
on the part of the shadowy people who choose what gets put out on
tv..... not only is it cheap (no expensive new content to produce), but
it forces us feeble-minded tv users to keep watching...after all, once
you've started, you've gotta keep watching to find out what's number
one right?
Yes, you have.
Because not knowing will, for no sane reason, bug you for the rest of your life.
But
how does all this relate to the future? Well - it's simple. The amount
of existing content isn't growing, barely anything new seems to have
been made since some time around the year 2000. We're just getting it
all recycled and fed back to us again.
But you can only repeat the same "Top 100" shows so many times, so what's next?
Recursion.
While
today's tv bods have all the content from the last 20 odd years to
blend into countless insipid "Top 100"s, the tv bods of 2020 will have
nothing but 20 years of "Top 100" shows to play with.
Which means, and you heard it here first, tv is going to go recursive.
In just a few years, we're going to be sitting in front of stuff like "MTVs Top 50 Top 100s of the 2010s".
And there's nothing we can do to escape it. Suddenly global warming is the least of our worries.
