Thanks, Jack.
An interesting outburst, not because of any fresh ideas or propositions (as there were none) but as a reflection of the sentiments that the guys on the corporate side of the fence must be going through while watching the present developments. They had their own ideas of how to make money with broadband, but out of the blue came p2p and now people seem to have good use for all the bandwidth you can sell them without any corporate offerings. Who are the dreamers here? Tens of millions of people already doing p2p and together consuming half of Internet’s bandwidth? Sounds pretty real to me. The ISPs seem to survive. The hardware manufacturers seem to survive. Even the musicians seem to be still alive. Cookie Monsters? You better learn to call people with nicer names if you want to make business with them one day!
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For a start, bandwidth will become more plentiful over the next 10 years.
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True. Bandwidth - as well as storage space - will become dirt cheap in 10 years. A great development!
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Second, governments are getting seriously involved. The internet is great for schools and the public sector and high- speed web-based homeworking and networking will enhance our kids' abilities to learn and communicate.
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True. Governments are already seriously involved and try their best to be able to snoop you and control what you do online. I guess the educational sector will follow somewhere behind…
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Third, the big boys and girls are determined to make money out of it and will keep going until they do.
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Some big boys and girls will – surprise, surprise! – also be interested in other aspects and possibilities of the Internet beyond money-making!
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Fourth, peer-to-peer technologies will provide breakthroughs in low-cost distribution.
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True. This has already happened, and it keeps happening. A great thing, isn't it?
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Fifth, the recession will end and advertisers will wake up to the power of next interactive generation content.
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Presumably. Although I wouldn’t mind if they didn’t wake up at all.
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Sixth, the mobile and wireless revolution will mesh with broadband wires to give us roaming access to content.
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True. We will be able to listen to arbitrary streams from our car stereo instead of a few preprogrammed commercial playlists.
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And, seventh, all new media devices will be internet compatible, changing the way we gain access to media.
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True. We will have more freedom in the selection of our media sources, and a better access into decentralized non-commercial media. Great!
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Look at peer-to-peer communication. The people behind it are fantastically inventive software designers. But they hide behind the idea that they are providing more choice for the CM generation. Peer-to-peer Cookie monsters are like Fagin in Oliver Twist - they just want to pick a packet or two. Whatever they say about breaking new bands and writers, the vast bulk of what p-to-p facilitates is simple theft from creative artists.
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Ahhhhh….. the poor creative artist again… where would he end up without his corporate benefactors and protectors….
- tg
