21st Century Technology

Erik Fontano

Professor Roundtree

ART 211

10/16/2016

      In the 21^st century there has been many new inventions, improvements on past technology, and new forms of old technology. One of the best ones in recent times has been the introduction of the affordable “Smart TV.” The Smart TV is the combination of a regular flat screen TV with an operating system such as Android or Kindle to use Applications such as Netflix, Spotify, Hulu and the likes. This implementation has been quite useful to the entertainment industry, movies, TV shows and music is now easier than ever to access, and to do so in a legal way without pirating. TV’s in futuristic TV shows are always very interactive and with the ways everything is changing for Smart TV’s that could very soon become a reality. Those TV’s show using no devices, just voice or movement to navigate the television, being able to bring up computer files and other tasks will probably be an addition in the near future. The screens are also becoming thinner and eventually will become holographic.

  Smart TV’s currently can play videos, stream music, display photos, access the internet and satellite, can be plugged into video game consoles, blue ray players, connect to cell phones and tablets, as well as connect to a computer. The pricing of these TV’s started off astronomically high, in the thousands but today you can buy a 32’’ smart television for less than 300$, it is incredible to think how television, which started off as black and white 8 inch screens that could only connect via a signal receiver at the top and actual light tubes, turned into a 32+ inch flat screen, digital screen monitor with 1080-4k resolution and are basically tiny computers attached to the back. 

  This invention has a lot of potential and will definitely stick around and eventually replace all other forms of Television. The affordability was always an issue but now with costs of parts being extremely low there is no doubt this device will be taking off in the homes of people everywhere.

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