Today there are an infinite number of entertainment choices, but if you weren't watching the Beatles debut on CBS's Ed Sullivan Show, there were only two other channels to watch.
With Grant, the social, urban man, there are infinite possibilities for mutual entertainment.
"House of M" from Marvel Entertainment and "Infinite Crisis" from rival DC Comics were marketed as epic events, featuring top-name creators and huge casts of iconic characters.
Armed with a smartphone connected to a seemingly infinite ocean of information, entertainment and applications, many of us cannot remember a time when we weren't dependent on our mobile devices and networks for most of our daily needs.
All this Vine provides is entertainment and infinite questions.
It also doesn't seem like much of a coincidence that a key figure in David Foster Wallace's final novel, A Pale King which was obsessed with grand notions of sacrifice and civic virtue and paying attention, a foil of sorts to Wallace's indictment of entertainment in Infinite Jest was a Jesuit priest who taught the incredibly dull discipline of tax accounting.
"You're never bored, because there's infinite streams of information and entertainment".
I grew up watching Star Trek, a world where technologies like antimatter power, replicators, warp engines, and holodecks together construct a society in which there is infinite energy, consumables, transportation and entertainment.
Scholars and fans will soon be able to explore the painstaking reading and writing that went into works including his vast novel of entertainment-addled America, Infinite Jest.
