Blogging the Future: Mark Cuban and Scott Karp
There’s no one more interesting to read, in looking at the future of technology from a consumer standpoint, than Mark Cuban.
Case in point is a recent piece called IntraNets vs InterNets, in which the Blog Maverick speculates that the future of the Internet is actually… not the Internet, but Intranets, “a contained network managed to optimize the performance to meet the needs of the participants on the network,” which can theoretically provide download or “throughput” speeds vastly higher than what is currently possible over Internet connections.
Applications built on these Intranet platforms could then in theory be far more complex than web-based applications:
Ive sat with several of these network providers and what I’m telling them, and I think they are listening and following through, is to offer a platform or intranet applications. A platform for applications that confirm that the user and application host are on the same network, or possibly even on the same network segment. Make 100mbs or higher throughput a guaranteed service level to that application.
When that happens, people a lot smarter than me will come up with applications that blow away anything we are seeing now. I dint care if you call it Web 10.0 or whatever, but the reality is that the applications we will see then will be amazing.
Another must read when looking at the (nearer term) future of the Internet is Scott Karp’s Publishing 2.0. I’ve been following closely of late an in depth exploration of how newspapers are scrambling to increase profitability in the online space. Each day provides a fascinating analysis and proves out Scott’s theory that the current standardized online advertising model doesn’t do justice to the current online publishing marketplace.
It’s an exciting time, and we’re lucky to have minds around like Cuban and Karp who are several steps ahead of the conventional curb.
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