George Gilder's telecomputer is coming closer and closer.

Years ago, probably about 1986 I read a book by George Gilder and for the life of me I can't remember the title, but it talked about the convergence of TV & the computer. He saw that the future of technology would marry video and the functions of the computer calling it the "telecomputer". If you've never read any of Gilder's material, it's worth the time to take a look at what this futurist was saying back then and how it might affect us all in the future.

Now with video becoming more on demand thanks to advanced computing, the ability to find the video you're looking for is coming. Blinkx, one of the latest in a crop of upstart search engines will be offering searchable video called BlinkxTV. My guess is that closed captioning has something to do with this. If the search engine can take that kind of text content and offer it as a search term, then it's more than just a deaf person's helper. I'm only guessing that's how it might be done unless they associate keywords with them. But that would seem unlikely. The telecomputer as Gilder described so many years ago is finally coming to pass.

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