US billionaire Cuban again: the Internet is dead

When I put forward the idea of "the Internet is dead", many people will be puzzled. But no matter what they think, the Internet is really dead. Each new technology, mechanical or intellectual property breakthrough has its own "good time", perhaps a few days, months, or years. But their "good times" do not always exist, and that is the truth.

Each generation has its own definition of breakthroughs. Cars, televisions, radios, airplanes, highways, wheels and presses are all breakthroughs in different eras, and this list will continue and grow forever. In any given era, the assertion that a groundbreaking invention was "dead" would be regarded as heresy. But the fact is that these inventions are no longer changing, have ceased to develop, have become practical tools and are considered natural.

Some people may not want to admit it, but the internet has indeed become such an invention. The internet has become a practical tool that has ceased to develop, and the Internet experience of people today is not much different from what it was five years ago. Of course, this does not mean that the influence of the internet has disappeared, and this influence is still there. The internet has changed the lives of billions of of people around the world and will continue to exist as a practical tool for billions of of people, like cars, televisions, radios, airplanes, highways, wheels and presses.

It may be argued that Web2.0 is evidence of the continued development of the Internet. But the opposite is true, Web2.0 just proves that the Internet has ceased to develop and has become a stable platform. As we all know, it is very difficult to develop and apply for a constantly changing platform. Because in such an environment, any application may not work properly. Internet 1.0 is not the most stable development environment, the Internet is now very stable, even boring.

New Internet apps such as Myspace, Facebook and YouTube have risen rapidly because they can run stably. There is no need to worry about changes made by Internet access providers, which can cause an application to work. The era of AOL, Prodigy and other Internet access providers has become the past. People can connect to the Internet at any time, whether he is at home, office or school. Internet applications are running fast enough to keep us interested and engage us for a long time. All in all, the internet has been very stable, and excellent applications based on the Internet are emerging.

It is noteworthy that new Internet applications such as Myspace, Facebook and YouTube are not the internet itself. They are just software apps that run on top of the internet, just as Microsoft Excel is software applications that run on Windows and Mac operating systems.

The day that the internet has been creating exciting ideas and ideas has died. This will only change if the bandwidth throughput of the home broadband user is much higher than the current level.

In the past five years, few families have increased their bandwidth throughput by more than 5mb/s; In the next five years, there will hardly be a single home with a 10mb/s increase in bandwidth throughput. Such a platform is not enough for those who are good to develop truly groundbreaking ideas. In fact, this figure will continue to slide over the next few years if you consider the ratio of bandwidth consumption to real bandwidth increases for broadband users.

For a variety of reasons, many people do not understand this concept. So I reiterate once again that the days of the Internet's constant creation of exciting ideas and ideas are dead, and this state will continue for the foreseeable future.

The internet is tiring. The internet is a good thing, even some people call it "great". But the internet has become a practical tool, like cars, televisions, radios, airplanes, highways, wheels and presses.