Television is so cool. Television is proving that we can be sophisticated and that people will watch, if it's good.
Pretty soon we'll have robots in our society, you're going to have a lot of automated processes that used to be done by people - this is happening. Society and technology is changing so fast, and the impact of the change on society and technology is global, not local.
Science is based on the possibility of objectivity, on the possibility of different people checking out for themselves the observations made by others. Without that possibility, there is no empirical principle capable of deciding between different arguments and theories.
Measurements, observations, descriptions can only be considered scientific when they are independently confirmed by other people.