Bit Rot (Douglas Coupland)

• Highlight on Page 238 | Loc. 3640-44 | Added on Wednesday, October 24, 2018, 10:33 PM

big-screen TVs are ugly. In the history of human technology, there have been few inventions whose intrinsic ugliness and brutality of form so defeat everything we call home. Trying to put a big screen in a domestic space and have it look like it belongs is almost impossible, like having a 2001: A Space Odyssey monolith inserted into your life—a monolith that has total disregard for your humanity or taste. The black minimalist box on your wall negates your framed wedding photos, your crown mouldings, your art collection, your potted plants.