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Telovation provides no-nonsense reporting on everything new, cool, and interesting in the world of technology, gadgets, and innovation. Telovation.com is a web news magazine that provides daily reports on the latest achievements in the world of technology, art, design, innovation, and interesting people and things from around the world.

Digital media and network technologies are now part of everyday life. The Internet has become the backbone of communication, commerce, and media; the ubiquitous mobile phone connects us with others as it removes us from any stable sense of location. Along with this, the public is transforming. The mass media and mass audience analyzed by the Frankfurt School are long past. Today we inhabit multiple, overlapping and global networks such as user forums, Facebook, Flickr, blogs, and wikis. The media industry which just a decade ago seemed well-established, is in flux, facing its greatest challenge ever. Our book, Networked Publics examines the ways that the social and cultural shifts created by these technologies have transformed our relationships to (and definitions of) place, culture, politics, and infrastructure.

A page on the Freepress.net site; quote below is from this page: "While media technology has advanced in the 42 years since public broadcasting was created, the need has only grown for noncommercial, not-for-profit media, available free to the public with a mission to inform, educate, inspire and engage. Public media means more than just PBS and NPR. It includes all media outlets and formats whose mission is to serve the public, not to earn a profit. This noncommercial sector aims to educate, engage and inform audiences, and it offers an alternative to the mainstream, commercial media."

Ze Frank's more serious 2010 TED Talk, in which he discusses a number of past and recent projects and talks about the "life" lived in technological interactions, and the great potential for creating real social and emotional connections through online networks.

"It Will Be Awesome if They Don't Screw it Up: 3D Printing, Intellectual Property, and the Fight Over the Next Great Disruptive Technology"

Images from a 1962 book about what 1975 technology would look like.

An NBC news report from the eighties that explores "Telefuture," the predicted world of future television in the US.

A study on the future of screen techonology