Interactive Television, what the heck is it?

In the time of turmoil, truth seems to be buried under the shuffle of uncertainties. And uncertainty sure has its place in our history; and especially for mine. I was churned into a world of extreme violence. The world I entered was packed with turmoil, filled with uncertainties and upheavals. I was born in Saigon, Vietnam at the start of the war. I arrived at the dawn of the conflict starting with the Gulf of Tonkin incident. In the previous year, Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem and John F. Kennedy were assassinated in the same month. Abroad, Vietnam was a difficult situation for America. On the home front, she faced increasing internal problems. The Civil Rights Movement and Anti-War demonstrators upset Washington, as doves and hawks pecked their ideology against one another. At the time, American culture was defined by the two primary cultural symbols- Gun and Television.

Gun dominated the content on television during the Vietnam War. Senator Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination appeared in front of Americans in their living room. As the Vietnam War was broadcast on television every evening across America, it affected many Americans. With the guns the American soldiers brought to Vietnam, they brought along the television. American TV shows can be viewed by many Saigon residents through the U.S. Military broadcast network. I saw another world…