Professor William Webb, chief technologist of regulator Ofcom and futurologist, has spoken about his predictions for the next two decades…”we won’t see many new technologies over the next two decades”. He claims there is a basic trade-off between range and bandwidth, and the industry is reaching the limits of the conjunction of what is physically possible and what is economically viable. So the next iteration or so of technology will be the last which is widely adopted, which if true is both bad and good news for content providers — bad because it puts a limit on how the amount of data streaming available, and good because “it is very hard to write applications when the underlying technology base is forever changing”. Of course, this ignores any paradigm-changing discoveries or developments that may occur.
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