The VCR made all of these things possible so in a way they are all in there. You might as well think of it that way. The fight to use VCR and time shifting was not bloodless. Even Mr. Rogers had to go before congress to stand up for us to say that if moms recorded his show it would benefit everyone and would not enable stealing from anyone. So now we have all kinds of similar devices because if the VCR failed to defend itself, we certainly wouldn't have ipods or anything related.

Piano lessons? This is historic.. Oh you Tivo.. Time-shifting reality.

At one time Lucky was filtering the extra codes so it wasn't possible to get by the filter. It used to be only google video has time shifting.

It would be good if youtube allows this. Let's hope it doesn't screw up the Already Submitted filter.

I've made that same comment before as a joke, but the reality of the situation is that global warming isn't about the temperature outside your window at any given time. Shifts of even a couple of degrees from established norms in certain areas of the globe can have serious implications to the natural processes that occur there.

Think about homeostasis in your body, we're endothermic which means our body temperature remains the same because for us to function properly at the basest levels we need to remain at about 98.6F. If you were to shift that temperature several degrees up or down, like when you have a fever of 103F, you feel horrible and sick. Imagine it weren't a transient virus or bacterial infection, but a permanent state caused by abusing your body over the years. I don't know how long the human body could last at a permanent feverish state, but it certainly wouldn't be pleasant.

The science about the effect of carbon dioxide and other pollutants has been proven in the laboratory, there's no denying that if you pump the atmosphere full of it, heat has a much harder time escaping; simple greenhouse effect. Think about the amount the human race pumps out every minute of every day and then think about what possible effect that might have in 100 years from now. You might be dead, but somebody is going to have to pay for it. Nobody is saying there will be "The Day After Tomorrow" apocalyptic events (that's just shock value for entertainment), but crank the heat up a few degrees and you'll have major climate changes, rising sea levels, changes in rain fall and deserts forming where there were none, etc. etc., and then what will we do? Guaranteed, the cost in manpower and material to cope with those kinds of events over time will be far greater than the immediate short term cost of tightening our belts, learning to live without being grossly excessive, and developing new technologies to reduce our impact.

We're making changes to this planet that it has never gone through. There's absolutely nothing natural about the path humanity is following and the high impact technologies we've developed over the last 200 years. On the grand scale, we're behaving like bacteria, multiplying in exponentially greater numbers each year, consuming natural resources and excreting toxins... what happens when a human body is completely overrun by bacteria? They die. Is it so hard to believe that if we shit all over our planet without a care in the world, it won't begin to die as well? Then where does that leave us?

Just think about it.

oh but this is a very nice portrait of the VC guys:
This doesn’t surprise me. I know of a few notable exceptions, but many of the folks from the venture capital firms I’ve come in contact with over the years seem separated by light-years from the bleeding edge of tech culture. I remember when I was working on one of my old startups back in the early days of podcasting, and having to explain time and time again first the concept of time-shifting, then the concept of RSS, and then the concept of podcasting, and then on top of that what made my solution unique in the very narrow field of four or five people making money from podcasting at the time. It floored me that I had to spell out in such kindergarten language what I did to folks who supposedly invested in technology for a living! My personal experience tells me that a lot of VC folks just read the headlines of the tech blogs, and that’s about it.