Vint Cerf, aka the godfather of the net, predicts the end of TV as we know it

Web guru foresees download revolution

• Bobbie Johnson, technology correspondent
• The Guardian
• Monday August 27 2007

Vint Cerf helped build the internet in California in the 1970s. Now he is working on taking it beyond the Earth’s confines, with a plan to use it to control space vehicles. Photograph: Murdo Macleod

Thirty years ago he helped create a technology that has revolutionised millions of lives around the world. But yesterday the man known as the «godfather of the net» laid out his vision of where our online future might be, including a time when we download entire TV series in seconds – and even surf the web from Mars.

Talking at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, Vint Cerf – one of the handful of researchers who helped build the internet in the 1970s – said that the television industry would change rapidly as it approached its «iPod moment».(leer más…)

Fuente: [The Guardian]