Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, HDNet and outspoken blogger, says “The Internet is Dead and Boring“. Actually he’s saying now, “The Internet Is still Dead and Boring“, but since I’m just now catching up to some old feeds I’m reading them both at the same time.
We’re interested in Uncovering the Internet, and Mark thinks we’d be better off burying the sucker.
The days of the Internet creating explosively exciting ideas are dead. They are dead until bandwidth throughput to the home reaches far higher numbers than the vast majority of broadband users get today.
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The Internet is boring. That is not a bad thing. In fact its easy to make the argument that its a great thing. That it has become the utility that the people who worked to get it started firmly believed it would. That it finally is the platform for any number of mundane applications that are easy to write and that anyone can use and trust.
Mark’s obviously gotten some strong comments on his statements. Oddly enough though, I think he does have a point. I don’t think “dead” and “boring” is quite the words I would have used, but it has moved into the equivalent of an expected “utility” in our lives.
Don’t worry, we’re not going anywhere anytime soon. There’s still plenty of interesting stuff to be uncovered on the Internet.
What do you think?