When great images get outdated

From One Human Minute:

“Every night, electrons, forced to lick the screens of our television sets with frenzied speed, show us the world chopped up and crammed into the Latest News” – Stanislaw Lem, One Human Minute

There’s a lot of cultural momentum with the image of TV as a rounded rectangle, some 50 years worth.

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flickr image from Roadsidepictures

I wonder what will pass first, the icon of TV as the tube, or the separation between media presented as “TV” and media presented as “internet”

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