So I just heard an emergency broadcast warning come over the air... tornado watch now in effect. Yikes. Scary stuff, right?
But this was Internet radio. Broadcasting out of North Carolina... and here I am looking out the window for a twister in Connecticut?
This brings up an interesting paradigm... what exactly is the purpose of our trusty emergency broadcast system in a world of satelite and streaming audio? What's the definition of "local" in a world abstracted from geography, where location is becoming less and less relevant?
Seriously people, what's a person listening to this station in Oregon supposed to think... "Oh man... board up the windows, we've got a class 3 tornado headed our way!"
A better use of the EBS in our digital age? "Code yellow... class 5 packet storm coming across your local subnet."
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