Frank A. Aycock, Ph.D., has been a professor of communication at Appalachian State University for more than a quarter century. A former local television broadcaster, Dr. Aycock is a futurist and a firm believer in the transformative power of the new television technologies. He is the author of "21st Century Television: The Players, The Viewers, The Money," the first book in the 21st Century Television series. In September2013, Dr. Aycock was a presenter of a TED talk at the TEDx Conference in Nagoya, Japan. Adam Powers is a fifteen year veteran of the media & entertainment and communications i...