Wow, Moses Znaimer was a cornerstone of my early media consumption with CityTV and MuchMusic. Next time I am in Toronto I am definitely checking this out. Thank you.

Also a good example at how technology has made things slower. An analog TV can change channels mid-frame; try that on a digital TV and you're met with a 0.5 to 1 second delay, just like on this site. It's not much, but it adds up.

I remember coming home from school and tuning in to the Disney afternoon. When it was over, there wasn't really anything else on so you turned the TV off and did something else like go outside or do homework (okay, that last one was a lie.) Same thing with Saturday morning cartoons, I think maybe American Gladiator was the last thing a kid would want to watch before noon and again, turn TV off and do something else. Though there was the A-team and MacGyver at some point.

It's post-peak tech. Channel flipping is the ideal format for channels and other content that can take up a whole screen.

If you believe in stereotypes, men were always on infinite scroll.

Because it’s the closest thing to proof that people truly do live entirely different realities. Whoever you were staring at those shows at that age is simple not you now and can never be you again. It’s almost supernatural. If you follow this line of thinking, it’s possible to live entirely different existences, almost in another body (you can take that however far you want, reincarnation, life after death, being unplugged from the simulation, etc).

It’s a mystical way of asking “what exactly was the past really and how transient am I now at this exact moment?”.