YouTube

I remember a time when we had maybe a dozen channels on our Zenith television set and t.v. time was rationed out more stringently than meat during The Great Wars.

I knew nothing of MTV except what I saw in between baseball games at my friends' house.

Now I can watch just about any cable television series, any 80's sitcom, any movie, any music video, any experimental short film, etc. on my computer any time I want with minimal effort (for FREE!).

And I'm not limited solely to American content. This afternoon on YouTube, I found a Norwegian sitcom, a Russian animated children's program, a Korean horror flick and Dario Argento's Mother of Tears (with Portuguese subtitles, unfortunately) without even really trying. There's also UK YouTube.

The internet has inflated the value of entertainment.

I'm not complaining. I think It's great. If YouTube existed when I was ten, you wouldn't be able to pry me away from the computer.

But giving users access to virtually anything they can imagine is almost like giving away Donald Trump's fortune to a homeless person. What does he do with it and what the hell can't he do with it?