Quote:
Originally Posted by dmaul1114
You can never say never.  |
Originally you said free wireless that pretty much never has outages. I'm pretty sure you can chalk that up under "never".
Quote:
|
But we'll probably get to the point where one can stream pretty much any movie or book or song they want in the next 50-75 years if I had to guess.
|
The same will happen that always happens, as bandwidth speeds go up. so do the bandwidth requirements. Could everyone easily stream today's version of a movie with the bandwidth speeds/availability we'll likely have in 50 years, probably. But by then the data formats will be an equal number of orders of magnitude larger as well. 50 years from now, movie/book/song digital data will also look a lot different than it does today. It's not just one side of the equation that will scale upwards.
It'd be like kids 20 years ago talking about how fast they could play the latest 4-bit graphics game on a "futuristic" computer compared to their 25MHz PC. Sure, we've got 4GHz PCs now, but not many people want to play 20 year old games on them. Modern content stresses modern hardware, they go hand in hand.