jeremy tessmer | curator & designer

So, I had finally joined the ranks of the technorati vis-a-vis the whole IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) thing with my awesome new Roku box when Google (Don’t Be Evil) decided to produce an awesome new device for bringing the internet to my home television. Needless to say, it ties in with their new phone, the Android. And it all runs Chrome, with access to my Wave account, my Google Docs, my Gcal (or whatever it is that the Bolsheviks are using this week), my mother’s favorite color, and everything else that really exists on the Planet Earth.

Did someone say stock price? (Top hit for ‘google + stockprice’ is Yahoo Finance)

I don’t know how it happened. One day, a friend says to me, “Hey, have you heard about Google?” And, I hadn’t. I had never heard of Google. It wasn’t a verb, just another embarrassing technology moment brought to you by my life away from the world wide web. “Yeah, I’m with Alta Vista right now. What does it have? Nothing? A four color logo and a search bar?! I’ll see you later.”

Only then, Google found a way to make advertisers subsidize free online software. Fast forward: I have to buy a new damn box. I don’t know what critical piece of techno nirvana it will deliver, but I do know that Roku isn’t … all the way there yet. We all know where there is; it’s fast, easy, affordable access to all media everywhere delivered in five channel surround sound and HDTV. There is the promised land.

This will probably have implications for the art industry - the presupposed raison d’etre of this blog, but I will save those thoughts for another blog post. Don’t make any plans for six-seven weeks from now.

Oh yeah, iPad. (One does want to stay relevant in the fast-paced online world of tomorrow.)