I heard Apple was building the TV of the future which will have Siri integrated in it and major tv networks with programs on it so you can search for shows and movies with Siri. That all sounds pretty cool but let me tell you what really is the Tv of the future.

Let me agree, Apple has some good points, Siri on tv will be awesome. There will no longer the need to use remote controls. That’s cool. However, bringing more and more content on tv so that you have much more things to see and search for. Yeah that’s cool but isn’t Google tv, hulu and much more doing the same thing? It will just soon turn into content war. That is not what is key here.

The tv of the future is actually going to be social. It will have a webcam to allow you to video chat but most interestingly allow you to watch shows with your friends like you were all actually watching it with them in the same room. You both watch a soccer game and rejoice together on video after your team scores a goal, watch a tv show on comment on the show will you are watching it. Also the tv of the future of will be a social network, where you will be able to see what your friends are watching at the moment and if it feels interesting enough you can join them and watch it together. Same goes with the fact that if you’re watching a show you will see some of your friends join you to watch the show because they thought it was cool.

Some other shows and events, you would be able to decide to watch with a crowd of people you don’t know and then enjoy watching a show with total strangers. The Tv of the future will no longer be a big black box that just shows us images, that is so 90’s or web 1.0. It will interact with us, with our community and be social. It will recommend shows to us based on what our friends watch. It will allow us to watch shows with our friends and family without having to be actually with them.

Like the phone before it, tv will leave its 50 years of trying to make images clearer to actually becoming a computer that we will be able to interact with. That will be the TV of the future.