Only once television broadcasting gets narrow and local and relevant will the TV hold any significance in our lives. Until that box shows us the kind of detailed portraits and individual expression found on the street and on the web, there are better things to do. Until someone we know and trust and connect with finds a way inside that one-way block of noise, we'll be busy stumbling around in a marketplace of thoughts, opinions, ideas, and people we're growing to trust.

But when it starts to sound like an invitation, like an invitation to a very interesting long meaningful conversation, like an invitation into something new that feels completely natural, then we might come back. When the choice and control and fluidity of individualism show up, we'll take notice. And we'll gladly dig around for the remote if the something beautiful about to shine from that ugly box full of broadcasts might be us.