The Des Remote-control

By Alexis Nunez Oliva
Executive Producer of Television

When in 1893 the Serb Nikola Tesla developed the first remote control with patent filed, with the aim of controlling vehicles on the move, I could not believe after so many years that human beings depend on the remote control and can depend on your pillow, your partner's sentimental or some addiction.

Although in 1956 the first device that appeared to distance could change some channels timidly, and with a mechanical system that sounded outrageous, it was not until the late seventies when the remote control started to acquire the shape of a threat to the television and gave comfort to viewers, but allowed just go up and down the volume and change the channel to the next or previous.

Whenever we talk in the television industry point rating and share, almost never interact with the remote, small Pad with ever more options.

The remote control can be considered a real tyrant by those who produce television. It is the lethal weapon that shoot with viewers to take in less than a second, the decision to change the channel.

When the channels had to change them through a button that seemed to be a key gas cooker, spectators granted more time to programs, sometimes relying on a re interesting as the minutes passed.

Lifted the seat meant a physical effort when he had to do it several times and sometimes children became assistant to the parents say ... "change the channel?".

In those times the rates of obesity were lower (I do not believe that only by the exercise of changing channels) the pace of life was more tranquil, and diversity of television channels was small when compared with the hundreds of signals that almost anyone have in your house when you decide to sit down to watch TV.

And why do people change the channel? The issue is much deeper and involves several conditions that match, appealing for further comment on his scientific analysis.

Only the firing of a weapon is as fast as you change channels. It depends on a finger of a thought. Depends just to get bored without knowing that you are bored, and sometimes even an accident, when pressed a wrong button and arrive at a program that surprises us and makes us forget exactly who we're armed and still experience the adventure continuing search .

It is proven that women are conservative in using the remote control. Take longer to change a channel. The spirit of the mother has a patience that we see every day when they decide to do zapping.

The men, when they have a remote control in their hands, acting as in the west, between gunmen. Nothing stops. All of them are interested. Enloquecen betting on what follows. Are smoked with your fingers the buttons that move up and down the canals.

There is something more appealing on television for a man that the program is not watching at that time and he wants to come soon without knowing what or where it is.

Men suffering from zapping early, and result in women, when they see television as a couple, dissatisfaction and anxiety. Sometimes women get tired and leave ... for another TV installed somewhere in the home. Starts well infidelity of husbands and viewers each decides to entertain with different schedules.

Living in this modern assumed, households of any mortal have an invasion of remote controls. The stereo, DVD player, each more computers, engines, electric curtains, the air conditioners until the alarms of the cars was appropriated on the remote, to make life more enjoyable and somewhat sedentary, creating another kind of relationship between people and computers.

But no remote control creates emotional dependence that builds the remote control of television. His brief straying on the bed on the floor or on the couch, causing palpitations, anxiety, anger, guilt and responsibility.

At the same time, in this 21st century there is perhaps a more democratic tool that remote control, it allows the viewer to vote every second for the best program, choosing the most popular, and condemning the disappearance to the forgotten.

We know that the use of the remote control does not determine the quality and depth of content, and less scope, but who is allowed to each viewer vote for the most entertaining, showing their tastes and preferences without using the spoken word, without write their thoughts, without confessing to the priest.

Perhaps the day is not far when using a remote control can shut neighbor scandalous, or turn off the friend who never fails to criticize everything and who knows if we serve up to change government policy when we invade exactly out of control.

While this does not happen, people will continue to play to control the television, but the reality is almost always available to us television monitors, despite the distance.

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