Internet and Broadband Video are overrated but unrealized

I’ve been reading through Mark Cuban’s posts on how the internet is boring and broadband video is overrated, and I agree with a lot of what he’s saying (except that the internet isn’t boring), but I think he (and a lot of companies right now) are looking at things the wrong way.

The internet isn’t exciting because it’s a bunch of pipes anymore, it’s the type of stuff that’s starting to show up on the pipe (largely social interaction, which is basically what has driven human society for eons) - we’re realizing more and more ways to interact and connect *using* the same infrastructure that’s been around for years.

So I guess to take his analogy of the water pipes, it’s as though people are starting to see wine come through the pipes. That’s worth getting excited about.

Cuban is also right that broadband video is never going to work as a traditional replacement to traditional TV - the ‘net and broadcast work on fundamentally different levels. Personally, I don’t want internet TV on my tube, I want regular TV on my computer!

But where broadband video really shines is microchunking and sharing - nothing on broadcast medium can do that the way the internet can. AND the infrastructure for this *does* exist, so long as the chunks are the right size and format.

I bet that’s where it’ll go.