Except TV was basically a "new radio", which in turn was an extension of print media which provided a service that was deemed necessary by the public - as a source of information. early TV and for that matter radio weren't around for entertainment value, merely a way to get news faster than waiting for tomorrow's newspaper. It was later they became a source for entertainment.
Now if you were to argue that space flight can become an extention of travel services - not so much you are going into space but rather a much faster form of air travel to distant locations, that would seem a valid argument. Saying take off the blind folds and pointing out the incorrect way TV's boomed into popularity is not.
There is a parallel in that both of these technologies were first adopted by the scientific fields, that's pretty much were the similarities end.
Computer use was driven not by individuals but by them being adopted in business settings for practical reasons. It came later that individuals said "sure would be cool to own my own computer."
This looks to be a reverse model in that right now, outside of already established entities that are already cabable of space flight, there is no practical reason to do it, thus "it sure would be cool to fly into space" is the driving factor right now. Unless a practical reason is established for the everyman about why they need the capability to do this, it won't take the same course as computing, it will stay as a technology for those that can afford it and no others.
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Except TV was basically a "new radio", which in turn was an extension of print media which provided a service that was deemed necessary by the public - as a source of information. early TV and for that matter radio weren't around for entertainment value, merely a way to get news faster than waiting for tomorrow's newspaper. It was later they became a source for entertainment.
Now if you were to argue that space flight can become an extention of travel services - not so much you are going into space but rather a much faster form of air travel to distant locations, that would seem a valid argument. Saying take off the blind folds and pointing out the incorrect way TV's boomed into popularity is not.
There is a parallel in that both of these technologies were first adopted by the scientific fields, that's pretty much were the similarities end. Computer use was driven not by individuals but by them being adopted in business settings for practical reasons. It came later that individuals said "sure would be cool to own my own computer." This looks to be a reverse model in that right now, outside of already established entities that are already cabable of space flight, there is no practical reason to do it, thus "it sure would be cool to fly into space" is the driving factor right now. Unless a practical reason is established for the everyman about why they need the capability to do this, it won't take the same course as computing, it will stay as a technology for those that can afford it and no others.