Vint Cerf predicts the end of TV, makes Internet expand to the reaches of the solar system
August 30th 2007 18:14
Category: Celebrity
So, how about celebrity news that you might not have heard about? OK!
What's up with the Internet these days? Well, one of the original designers of the Internet, Vint Cerf, is now working on interesting projects, both for Google and NASA. He's working on a way to bring the Internet to the other planets in the Solar System. Hopefully, you could call your aunt on Saturn with Skype.
Hey, it could happen.
At a speech given at the Edinburgh International Television Festival, Cerf predicted the end of Television as we know it.
Citing Japan as inspiration, he predicts that TV will exist as downloadable media, for you to watch whenever you feel like it. No more TV guides, fixed time slots or prime time.
I like it!
"In Japan you can already download an hour's worth of video in 16 seconds," he said. "And we're starting to see ways of mixing information together ... imagine if you could pause a TV programme and use your mouse to click on different items on the screen and find out more about them."
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