Google TV: Coming to Your Living Room Soon?
If you haven't heard about it yet, it might be because you live in a cave inside a national forest. But even if you have heard of it (like most of us), you probably aren't sure exactly what Google TV is. Watch the video…
Will Google TV change my life? As a 50-ish year old somewhat geeky school teacher, I don't spend a lot of time wishing I could get Farmville up on my 60 inch flat screen. Don't get me wrong: I'm maxed out at level 70 on Farmville (as far as you can go) and waiting on crops to be ready to harvest. But I don't have a 60 inch TV. The ability to search the Net while I watch something in a screen to the side? That sounds enticing.
I'm guessing the impact of Google TV will be greater on my children (and people their age). From what I've read, they seem to have a visual cortex that's 20% larger than mine – precisely because Nintendo and the Internet have shaped their brain (while mine was pretty fully developed the first time I searched Google).
Purely from a marketing perspective, the sorts of blended services that Google TV offers isn't much different from how I get my Internet from my cable provider.
