When network television finally dissolves into the random ocean of video Web browsing, what a lovely day it will be. Because when that happens, TV will no longer be the center of American life, so that we can at last get up from the couch and have a culture again. Video itself, at that point, will be so full of choices that it will evolve the way cultures traditionally have, in complex patterns of pleasure, rather than in the market-obsessed pursuit of the lowest... More >>>