The Next Survivor: “Phenomenal Ideas”
So I was sitting in Malaysia, writing a book on videogame addiction, and watching an episode of the Hills, when I had an amazing idea. Reality TV that focuses real life research.
But how?!
How do you aknowledge wonderful ideas - and the people behind them? How do you take the excitement of something like Survivor, and then fuse that with the real-feeling drama of something like the Hills, or Virtual Laguna Beach?
People love things like the Amazing Race and Survivor, original reality TV. But I think that taking things past the surfacey attraction of something like the Hills could prompt a hugely malnourished market to turn their televisions back on.
More importantly, it would bring our values back into areas like knowledge and understanding. They’ve already got the “next great inventor” shows - why not recognize researchers and students who have invested years - without the expectation of massive reward or recognition?
But… how the hell would it work? Any ideas?
Ye olde evil neccessity for television, product placement, wouldn’t be a problem. Our emphasis on technology and learning would bring in some lucritive markets there.
It’s just… how do you make research and the researchers behind interesting?
Can it be done?
Neils Clark :: Aug.31.2007 :: General ::
