PC Magazine’s John C. Dvorak blames societal problems on large hard drives and TiVo. After all, it couldn’t have anything to do with ranting and raving columnists… right?
PC Mag says: With the TiVo, you don’t have to pay close attention to your TV anymore. If something happens, you can simply go back to watch it in detail, and then fall back into the zombie-like state abetted by this convenient tool. […] These devices are perfect for putting the public in a stupor. […] It’s difficult to prove that hard-drive technology in both the computer and TiVo is directly responsible for this. Yet laziness and global stupidity are not driving these developments. Rather, these developments are driving laziness and global stupidity.
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