Forgive me for citing an old-for-the-Internet article, but I’ve been thinking a lot lately about Germain Lussier’s Slashflim piece, “Roger Ebert Predicted The Future Of Film In 1987.” In it, he recalls Ebert’s 1987 predictions of HD widescreen televisions and on-demand entertainment. While accurate, it wasn’t really a stretch of the mind to predict that something we already had might get better, cheaper or more convenient. What sparks creativity is the re-imagining of the fundamental components of something we today take for granted.

For example, Google attempted to re-imagine email with Google Wave. While it may have only caught on with a small subset of the nerd population before getting rebranded, it was still an ambitious and creative reformatting of something we are entirely accustomed to.

No doubt, the television experience of the future will incorporate all the aspects of the everyday tech we implement into our lives — social media, tablets, wireless connections and, I hope in a few years, flying cars (we were promised). However, what won’t change is our need for quality content. The best stories will always follow the patterns timelessly ingrained into the collective unconscious of humanity, as stated by smart guys Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell. Technology will only help to make them… shinier.

So, as we push forward in a consumerist paradise of televisions larger than my San Francisco apartment walls and 3-D technology that doesn’t require glasses, I pose a question to you:

What will the future of television look like?

Comment below and maybe you can be cited for predicting something cool 24 years from now…