15 years ago the best TV station was first aired. The Discovery Channel was started in Canada and now reaches out to 170 countries on 29 network brands in 33 languages. It features amazing shows such as Mythbusters, Daily Planet, and Cash Cab just to name a few. Discovery Channel also offers HD shows, some of them include; Brainiac: Science Abuse, Time Warp, and Austen Steven’s Adventures. Because of the amount of awesome shows, and knowledge delivered to viewers, Discovery Channel is my favourite channel of all time.

Through the years D.C. has gone through many changes; from programming to looks, to advertising. For example, in the beginning, D.C.’s logo consisted of its name and a sphere in white with a black background. Now the logo is 3D and contains a detailed earth, which to be honest isn’t much different. Another thing, the shows that appeared ten or years ago were much different. You can imagine the old fashioned documentaries. Nowadays there are more in depth and exiting science shows (Brainiac Science Abuse especially).

All in all Discovery Channel is just plain awesome in every way possible. But the one thing that I would really like to point out before I finish is why D.C. is closely related to the meaning of life. If you are reading this blog you will probably notice the big “42” above this post. Well, Douglas Adams wrote in his book that the meaning of life is 42. I’m a big fan of this book and D.C. was channel 42 on our TV, coincidence, I think not!

There are thousands upon thousands of movies out there and even more books. The chances are that somewhere among all that entertainment, there are bound to be repeats. Eragon, for example, was an amazing book, but the movie was absolutely horrible. The plot was different and there wasn’t enough action. Harry Potter was another one, I guess it was unavoidable but there wasn’t enough of the original story; they left so many things out. Yet it still is enjoyable to watch. There are many examples of this but I do find a problem with it all.


Books leave most of the story to the imagination. Movies take that mental aspect away, but they can still provide entertaining visuals. Modern CGI is just getting better and better, so for some books it helps them to be turned into movies. Another issue is length; books can be as long as the author wants, whereas movies are almost always less than 3 hours. Given less time in a movie for character development can really change the way characters are understood by the viewers. In other terms, unless the movie adaption is really well done, it isn’t very good in my opinion.

Most of the time, movie adaptions don’t live up to their full potential. Many producers beg authors for the rights to make a movie; the book writer should take extreme discretion when making the decision. Although movies made from books aren’t always that good, they can still be entertaining... enough.

Technology is progressing at an incredible rate; “by 2013 there will be a supercomputer that will be able to do more computing than a human brain”. The question that I have next would be: if there will be a computer capable of doing more than a human brain, does that mean that in the future we could download our thoughts into a computer? Just think how cool that would be, and the possibilities it would bring. Our consciousness could go on forever. And if there was an interface which let video cameras be connected, we would be able to see. It’s all very strange when you think about it but on the other hand, one day it will be reality.

Like previously stated, technology is at a “boom”. First, the internet is expanding at an exponential rate. There are over 200 million users on MySpace, if that were its own country it would be the fifth largest in he world. Second is the raw technological information. Japan has developed a fibre optic cable that can push 14 trillion bits down a single fibre optic cable every second, and when you consider that there can be many more fibre optics in a single undersea cable, it makes you wonder how much information is out there. And finally is discovery. There are university students learning how to do jobs that don’t exist, with technology that doesn’t exist, to solve problems that aren’t problems yet! If we are able to solve all of the problems in the world (hunger for example) and we get every single human being focusing on our technological evolution there is no doubt that one day we will be capable of doing almost anything.


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