Letter: The dumb box never left – it just got smarter
Circa 2010, one of my primary school teachers famously referred to the television as the “dumb box”.
As a self-proclaimed TV freak, I would get so annoyed every time she said it, simply because I couldn’t understand how something that entertained me for hours was dumb. In my mind, TV was cartoons, news and fun documentaries that I enjoyed watching with my family. How could something like that ever be dumb? For a more complete summary of the story, please see the below link:
Published on: Mar 23, 2026 02:03 PM