Unintended Consequences

I remember when Los Angeles had it's last big earthquake, many of the highways were damaged. The unintended consequences were that many people who had never used the new public transportation systems started to use them and when things were fixed, there were some who continued to use those systems.

With the writers strike seeming to go on forever and more and more content available on the web, this strike has the possibility to change how people watch TV series. There's nothing new on so why not go find some older series on the net that might be interesting. I was visiting www.sfsignal.com and I came across a post Sunday Cinema: Firefly - "Our Mrs. Reynolds" where using www.hulu.com they've posted an episode of firefly. I visited the hulu site and they have The Pretender listed as one of the series that they host. It's one of my favorites. I signed up for the beta service, but it looks like there's a line. I see they also have 24 which I've never gotten around to watching.

It will be interesting to see what happens ten years from now. Will there be a blip of people who no longer watch TV programming on TV that grows from this point?