Chapter 20 The New Tokyo Tower has become the "Tower of Babel" that symbolizes the decline of IQ

The "IQ decline" associated with television programming can also be explained in other ways.With the development of society, new media such as the Internet develop rapidly, and from a certain point of view it has replaced TV.For example, my wife doesn't watch TV anymore, and she watches news from the Internet, and she can also watch BBC and other videos on the Internet for things she is interested in.For another example, if you find an interesting cartoon on YouTube, you can send the relevant link to your friends in the form of emails, and you can also receive emails from your friends to share.

The specific content of the network society will be introduced in detail in the fifth chapter.But one thing is certain, that is, due to the popularity of the Internet, TV media is gradually withdrawing from the stage of mainstream media. This trend is accelerating, for example, the number of hits on videos on YouTube has reached millions or even tens of millions. An animation on YouTube is generally only 5 minutes long. Compared with ordinary TV, it is fast and convenient.So even if it is 5 minutes, there will be millions, tens of millions of viewers, and there is no way for TV to do this.

In the United States, there are as many as hundreds of cable TV programs, but the audience's attention time on TV programs is only 13 seconds on average.Although YouTube only exists as a commercial announcement medium, it has attracted widespread attention with its 5-minute video, so that Google spent huge sums of money to acquire it. Today, if you want to do business, YouTube is an indispensable promotional medium. To take such an example, foreigners cannot watch Japanese TV programs, so when Japanese businessmen deal with foreign businessmen, it is impossible to have a common topic in this regard.But now, at the international business dinner table, many people will discuss YouTube as a common topic.Therefore, if a Japanese businessman does not often watch news and news with the top 10 hits on YouTube, then it is difficult for him and the other party to have a common topic.

Although people in the Japanese TV industry have noticed this drastic change in the media, they have not taken any measures yet, which is why those idiot programs in Japan can achieve high ratings. For so many years, under the monopoly of radio signals, the position of TV stations has been very stable, and they can broadcast programs at will.They believe that the public is "incapable of thinking", so they will not consider how to improve the level of the program. If I have to say it, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (formerly the Ministry of Posts and Posts), which is in charge of radio signal affairs, is also to blame for this matter.They don't understand the international transmission of radio waves, but they have been working on "integrating broadcasting and communication", intending to let broadcasting replace communication.But it turned out to be exactly the opposite, because broadcasting is only part of the communication.

In 2001, all televisions went digital, which meant the YouTubeification of TV programming.The previous model may not have been greatly affected by the Internet, but once it is digitized, it will not be the case, because people can upload TV programs to the Internet at will.Moreover, for today's young people, mobile phones are more important than TVs, and they spend more than two hours a day on mobile phones. In this way, television is indeed gradually becoming obsolete, and the construction of the new Tokyo Tower, which is a symbol of the digital age, is even more puzzling.After the existing TV station disappears, the New Tokyo Tower may become the only symbol left to future generations, and become the "Tower of Babel" that symbolizes the decline of Japan's collective IQ.