“That monster, alas, captured people” (video)
One of the inventors of TV technology, American Philo Farnsworth considered watching TV a useless occupation and used to say that he didn’t want to include it in his mental world, but Semyon Kataev stated that that monster, alas, captured people, and, which is the worst, children. Maybe today he would say that humanity creates technical development, which has both positive and negative influence on people and controls their souls. General Assembly of the UNO in 1988 declared November 21 as World Television Day on the occasion of holding the first World Television Conference in 1996. The states were proposed to celebrate this day, exchanging TV programs, which will be dedicated to peace, security, economic and social development and cultural issues. There are names of a number of inventors in the history of invention of modern television, thanks to whom that device became an irreplaceable part of people’s life. The base of mechanical TV was established still in 1884, when Paul Nipkow invented disc mechanism. Hovhannes Adamyan, inventor of colorful television, assembled the first equipment in Russia, which was able to display black and white images. And the further inventions by Seymon Kataev and Vladimir Zvorikin became the base of electronic television, which was followed by mass production of TV sets. “Future belongs to television. In 20 years there will be no newspapers, cinema, books and theatre. Instead, there will be only television,” says the hero of Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears movie. He was a bit mistaken. In the 1990s Internet appeared, and now future belongs not even to the digital television, but to Internet, and the World Web has seized the world.
