Chuck and I have just finished a viewing orgy of Heroes. We recently received our long ago ordered Apple TV, and after some initial bumps getting it installed have been having a fabulous time watching TV shows on it that stream from our Macs – his MacPro, my G5, and my MacBook Pro. We have collected different shows so it’s fun catching up with the other’s choices.

We had a brush with fame a while back when the guy who does the paintings that figure prominently in the episodes came to our house and showed us the pilot. it was pretty cool! He’s a friend of a friend of ours (doesn’t that sound pathetically LA?). We loved the pilot, then somehow managed to completely screw up, miss, or overwrite all episodes we attempted to record on DVR. *sigh*

Enter iTunes TV shows. I bought the entire first season of Heroes, and started watching them on my video iPod. This was a great way to stay entertained in airports, on airplanes, and in other locations where i had time to kill. But then. Then we installed the Apple TV and started streaming the episodes to our big screen TV. All I can say is I have seen the future and it is NOT Tivo. It’s Apple TV and watching what you want when you want without commercials.

All of this has made us start thinking a lot about the phenomenon known as Web 2.0. At work we have had to do a lot of thinking about Web 2.0 – we’re offering training and other related activities all about Web 2.0. But Apple TV has given us a new perspective – or maybe just clarified things for us. Web 2.0 is nothing. Try Web 5.0, 6.0, whatever. There’s a character on Heroes whose “power” is that she can physically interact with the Internet. She IS wifi – now THAT’s what I call connectivity!