Vint Cerf, in a recent speech in Edinburgh, predicted that people will soon be watching through the Internet most of what they now see via television, according to an article Monday in The Guardian Unlimited.
“You’re still going to need live television for certain things—like news, sporting events, and emergencies,” said Mr. Cerf, who helped to develop the Internet while a researcher at Stanford University. “But increasingly it is going to be almost like the iPod, where you download content to look at it later.”
He also scoffed at officials from the telecommunications industry who warn that the soaring use of video on the Web could cripple the Internet. These are “scare tactics,” reminiscent of those who said the Internet would collapse when people started using it en masse, he said.—-Andrea L. Foster
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