The Movies
This began as the Screen the Movies were projected on.It was coated with tiny glass beads that made it highly reflective. The image (and the sound) were on strips of film - containing many individual images, that were displayed, one after the other, rapidly enough so the viewers saw moving images. That is why they were called, The Movies.
It was an illusion, that created a world - that people liked better, than the real one. And they never thought to question it - or its effect on them. And they quickly assumed, it was the real world. And that their world conform to it.
In the Thirties, this became a technology much used, by the Nazis. The Germans were always the first to use any new technology. And this technology created self-deception on a massive scale. They became the first mass society - because the movies could be mass-produced easily.
Television
This technology also used a screen. on the front of a large vacuum tube. Where dots of light (pixels) were displayed rapidly, one after the other. That were also perceived as moving images.
People didn't have to go to the movies to see these images - they could watch them at home, on their own television screens - for free! It didn't take long for people, the world over, to become TV addicts.
The impact on the world's populations was unbelievable. Everyone in the world wanted what they saw on their TVs. And they wanted it now!
The Computer
This also had a screen, the same one used by Television. And it also created an illusion, but an interactive one - the Computer could respond to input from the user!
If they wanted to see naked, dancing woman - a click of a mouse provided them.
It didn't take long before they could do even better things - buy whatever they wanted, online.
The TV screen was replaced by a Solid State screen - billboard size, or phone size. Soon, everyone had one, tucked into their pants pockets. They could talk to it, and it could talk to them.
The world had changed, entirely!
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