Those “morning coffee” conversations on tv are gone, because we now binge watch and at watch at different times. In my lifetime we’ve gone from single source for viewing content to more than we can possibly watch. We use the “second screen” to provide a commentary on social media of what we’re watching.
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We’re likely to watch on our laptops, PCs, tablets or phones, rather than TV screens.And three hundred hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. Crown, a series about a young Queen Elizabeth II is on Netflix, The Handmaid’s Tale, based on Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel, is on Hulu. Outlander, a programme about time travel in Scotland, is on Starz. The companies are also creating content and publishing it in closed environment. These platforms are working on a subscription model, which sounds great – no more ads – although companies pay big money for product placement and content tie-ins. New platforms, such as Netflix, Amazon, Starz, Hulu, are changing how TV programmes are delivered to us. In general these channels are funded by advertisers. When we got one there were just two channels of TV available, I can still remember the excitement when two more were started, although my father stated that it just meant twice the amount of rubbish to watch.Īnd now? My TV provider offers 170 channels in 7 or 8 languages, and I can replay programmes up to 7 days later. Image: I wandered lonely as a cloud… | D Wright | CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Read the room before you use this phrase. Perhaps offering to fund a pilot of the best idea would give people the freedom to think creatively and reassure the pragmatists in the team. Maybe it’s better to include some of the pragmatic limits in your briefing. So a boss might be encouraging his team to be creative, to imagine wild solutions, but a pragmatic or cynical team might be hearing “let’s waste some time thinking of solutions that can never realistically be used” and that’s a demoralising thought. I think my lovely pragmatic Dutch colleagues understood this meaning. When my former boss, an American, used it this was his intended meaning.īut according to Wiktionary, there’s an alternative meaning Thinking that is not grounded or in touch in the realities of the present. Thinking that will ideally result in new out-of-the-box solutions to business problems. Blue-sky thinking conjures up open-minded and creative thinking.