{"id":31433,"date":"2016-10-27T00:49:45","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T07:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/future-of-tv-could-be-pills-that-make-people-hallucinate-television-shows-netflix-boss-says"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:20:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:20:22","slug":"future-of-tv-could-be-pills-that-make-people-hallucinate-television-shows-netflix-boss-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/future-of-tv-could-be-pills-that-make-people-hallucinate-television-shows-netflix-boss-says","title":{"rendered":"Future of TV could be pills that make people hallucinate television shows, Netflix boss says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/future-of-tv-could-be-pills-that-make-people-hallucinate-television-shows-netflix-boss-says.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It might be a blue pill that makes you hallucinate in an entertaining way \u2013 and then another white pill that brings you back to normality, Reed Hastings said\u2026<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The future of TV might everyone taking hallucinogenic drugs, according to the head of Netflix.<\/p>\n<p>The threats to the streaming TV company might not be Amazon or other streaming services, but instead \u201cpharmacological\u201d ways of entertaining people, Reed Hastings has said.<\/p>\n<p>And just as films and TV shows are a supposedly improved version of other entertainments, those same things might eventually become defunct, he said. In the same way that the cinema and TV screen made \u201cthe opera and the novel\u201d much smaller, something else might be on the way to do the same thing, the Netflix boss said at a Wall Street Journal event.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/gadgets-and-tech\/news\/netflix-pills-drugs-reed-hastings-tv-future-movies-shows-matrix-a7381416.html\">http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/gadgets-and-tech\/new...81416.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It might be a blue pill that makes you hallucinate in an entertaining way \u2013 and then another white pill that brings you back to normality, Reed Hastings said\u2026 The future of TV might everyone taking hallucinogenic drugs, according to the head of Netflix. The threats to the streaming TV company might not be Amazon [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31433"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59941,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31433\/revisions\/59941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}