[Aussie Bloke]

From my point of view, technology is continuously evolving but at an exponential rate to the benefit and dis-benefit of people. To my opinion of cell phones (known as mobile phones in Australia), it is always handy to have one especially in the event of emergencies as it saves having to try find a phone booth and when you're out bush that would be impossible to find a phone booth hehehe, however people seem to communicate less in person and more over mobile phone, MSN or Facebook but it's individual choice.

With technology of today, yeah colour TV is a natural part of our lives and it isn't as amazing as it was when it first came out, but that's like anything from the invention of the radio, the telephone, the Nintendo, the Playstation etc., amazing when first on the shelves but become second nature as it is more easily available to the public.

The interesting twist though with colour television, there are young enthusiasts like myself who get exposure to the history of colour television and see some of the earliest colour videotape recordings from the 50s and the TV sets in operation via YouTube and we think "WOW it's absolutely amazing that colour television was of THAT great quality way back then" and so I can equally appreciate the amazement of the invention of colour television and how remarkable the quality was. Looking at early colour videotape recordings is like looking at reality 50 years ago which is astounding. I can guarantee if that Eisenhower tape was played to a few hundred teens, a number of them would be gobsmacked that colour television was of that high fidelity decades before they were born. I have shown some of my friends who are in their 20s some of these early video recordings and they were totally amazed of the quality of the pictures produced back then.

So I dare say there can be a younger generational fanbase for the early days of colour as I've been finding when people hit their 20s and mature a bit they start broadening their horizons outside the bounds of their pop culture and look to other things of amazement, for example my younger cousin whom I use to think as a stereotype club goer listening to the latest R&B and diva pop has been getting into classical jazz by Miles Davis and krooners like Frank Sinatra. As for myself I'm 28 and the history of television technology is one of my biggest passions and so I'm continuously searching for early video recordings to get a feel of what TV was really like back in the day especially colour and have taken up this interest when I was in my mid teens.