What you missed out on then, is the requirements of the upstream providers.

If each household will have 100 Mbps, then someone like RoadRunner or Comcast absolutely have to be able to supply 100 Tbps.

Somewhere along the lines, an element of responsibility needs to be in place – just because you CAN do something, doesn’t mean that you SHOULD do something. Why transfer and store all that data if it’s not going to be utilized? Because you CAN? That’s a pretty lame reason, if it’s a reason at all. …And blah blah blah “Who said I need a reason???”

well, you do, you tard. grow up.

Why is it that those of us who have HDNet cannot view the Mavs games in HD, and have to put up with the crappy picture and audio provided by UPN 21 ??

In some ways I think that getting a computer for each of my kids was a mistake. When we only had one computer for the whole family to use, the kids used to gather around it and watch music videos and browse the web together.

Oh well. At least my kids talk to each other through myspace.com…

optimze what we have, idea.. when anything gets sent all this info follows; file size, file name, file location, referral..etc do we need it can we optimize our current internet bandwith ? should be the Question. I truely believe in video on demand and pay per view to be a VOD solution for all. to learn more on VOD check out XonDemand.

When you look at the children of today, they have developed constant communicaton needs unlike anything anyone has ever seen or known in the past. Children today require rapid answers to questions on any topic and expect to find the the answers almost instantly via the internet as it is today. Children also carry with them a mobile phone. Children talk to each other constantly now, in ways and amounts that previous generations did not have the opportunity to do. From the moment they wake up they’re instantly searching for communication. They need to see television and hear music to stay in touch on a general level, they then need to stay in touch with the people in their lives who are important to them, so they call friends and family on a cell phone. They have a computer and ever more devices that allow all sorts of communications. The outlets available to them to both give and receive communication are already amazing. Beyond that video games and online gaming, and learning techniques being used by educators today that mimic gaming have taught the children to respond to these kinds of communication ques in ways that us older people (i’m 42) simply don’t have the capacity to handle because these kinds of response skills are probably best learned as children. Where video games go, there so too will go the “internet” world,..the world of communications. The adults who will arrive on the scene 10 years from now will have expectations much much higher than just a piddley hdtv in every room and will resent their need for communication to be contained by anything as constraining as bandwidth. Just as the current crop of adults could not bear the constraints of having only a little bit of memory for their computers and other devices..and so pushed with all their might to make computer memory essentially unlimited at almost no cost, hence providing the platform from which to address this bandwidth issue. The next generation of adults will, if bandwidth is still rationed as memory once was, will make it their collective unconcious mission to make bandwidth a non-issue in the way memory has become a non-issue. Once that is behind them, then you are absolutely right, the people will be creating their own creations of sight and sound acquired from the sources available to them and will distribute that to their friends and the world as their expressions of themesleves at that moment for their friends and family. Social protocals will develop that will evolve that will provide the “language” the people will use to share their messages. This wiil evolve rapidly in the same way that email and IM came to so quickly have a language and protocals all their own. Content will be king. But the kings will not be the ones who make a fuss about what is being done with their creations once its unleased into the communication wild, the kings will simply be the ones who keep on creating content. To retain ownership of every word that pours from your pen will rapidly vanish because things will move too fast. So, instead, you must just simply keep communicating. “Keep talking” will be the motto of tommorrow. And if you need to draw a breath, that is already being taken care of too, for its the bots that will eventually rule the communication world.

The money to be made will be in creating the little artificial “you’s” who go about and do your biddings in your communication sphere. Here is where the money will be made. And to prove it, just look at what made Bill Gates so rich. You can sum up his success in one word “upgrades”. This is just another way to say “keep talking”.

Look at what the kids are doing today. They are in constant communication. And they expect this will continue and get even better. They won’t permit anything to stand in the way of this in the future.

A great way to understand this is to go back and stuyd the internet phenomonon of Gary Brosloma and the “Numa Numa Song” which took place last year in 2005. This sounds like a really strange place to go study about this, because its essenttially just a bunch of kids that grooved on the same song and liked to shoot little videos of themselves dancing to that song in their bedrooms. Thats the core of it. Thats all. Thats it.

Except that MILLIONS and MILLIONS of kids, WORLDWIDE all joined in the fun, within the space of just about six weeks. And they all did it just for fun, independently of each other, just because they wanted to.

But more importantly, because they could.

Bandwidth will not stand in the way. 10 years from now I suspect your estimates will have been far too small.

Oh yea, and one more thing. One of the commenters here asked “who would want to watch TV all day”. I would respectfully say to that person that you are looking at this from the perspective of the past. In the future, TV will go with you, will be with you as you travel, be wherever you’re going, and won’t be only one-way as tv is today. Its also being chopped up into pieces and recommunicated as Mark mentioned. In the future, it won’t make sense to be ANYWHERE without something to view. Not because you may or may not wish to be entertained, but because you will NEED it to satisfy both these communications desires children are aquiring today, as well as to feel like you are participating in the world. Because, in fact, communication WILL BE the world of the future. Sure we’ll still have outdoors and trees and whatever, but they won’t be the focus or nearly as revered as they are now. That is old-thinking. New-thinking will be “hey, did you get my message, what did YOU think about that??”