Mark Cuban: the internet ‘is dead and boring’
Cory Bergman August 24th, 2007
As always, Cuban makes an interesting point but with some exaggeration thrown in. “We have reached a point of diminishing returns with today’s internet,” he explains in an interview. “The speed of broadband to your home won’t increase much more in the next five years than it has in the last five years. That is not enough to work as a platform for new levels of applications that will require much, much higher levels of bandwidth…. The only way to change that is to upgrade the platform for bandwidth transport across the country to a minimum of 1 gigabyte per second throughout to every home. At that point kids will come up with new and unique applications that we can’t imagine today. That’s when it becomes exciting. Until then, it’s dead and boring.”
5 Comments Add your own
1. Safran | August 24th, 2007 at 9:34 am
He’s right about the bandwidth. We’re getting ripped off.
2. Anonymous | August 24th, 2007 at 9:44 am
Amen!
3. JoeMo | August 24th, 2007 at 10:48 am
We are pretty much in last place when it comes to infrastructure especially in the area of communications. What is really sad we have been putting gobs of tax payer money into “upgrading” our infrastructure but nothing has been done; billions wasted. When you can live in the middle of no-where in Sweden and have an internet connection 10 times better than just about everyone here for half the price I think thats pretty messed up. One things that I didn’t see mentioned in the article, although I must admit I just scanned it over briefly is that as technologies relating to compression and transmission evolve the need for higher bandwidth is lessened. At some point the need for bandwidth and the evolution of compression will meet. On a side note, I think Mark Cuban is a moron.
4. Gorman | August 24th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
The speed of the broadband may not increase (especially with the companies throttling users connections when they attempt to use the bandwith they pay for), but there are still a lot of people in smaller and rural areas whose only choices are dial-up or satellite. The more of those people that get broadband, the higher the lowest- common-denominator for development/accessibility is raised.
5. Anonymous | August 26th, 2007 at 8:29 pm
Kinda like online radio. dead. He’s lucky he sold it when he did.
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