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Loading ...In envision a day in which we will no longer make multiple payments for utilities, television, satellite radio, heating fuel, telephones, cell phones, Internet service and more. Instead, we will pay one simple “Essential Connections” fee to the carrier of our choice. That essential connection will provide us everything in one shot.
We’ll turn on our television and order a movie through Netflix (that will be charged to our essential connection bill). But instead of watching it on TV, we’ll sling it to our iPhone and watch it in the car. It will be nice and warm even in the winter because we dialed to the car from the phone, started it and engaged our seat heaters.
And since we didn’t think about it before we left, we’ll use that phone to turn down the thermostat and program it to return to the original temperature 20 minutes before we plan to get home.
Yes indeed, I envision a day.
[tags]visions, Internet, iPhone, Netflix, IPTV, Sling, Slingbox[/tags]
Chad Gramling is a baseball loving author, Christian and family man. WordUp is his platform for discussing what's on his mind, his publishing endeavors and pretty much anything else.
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Hmm…
Do excessive monopolistic practices have anything to do with your vision?
You could look at it that way. But I think it is more of a view on the way technology and consumer demand is leading. We are a culture that loves two things: 1.) to eat and 2.) to be entertained . . . and I could make the case that the two are one in the same (but not today). We’re already seeing this consolidation of services. Major satellite services in both TV and Radio are talking mergers, the number of telephone carriers are consolidating and offering multiple services . . . as are cable carriers. It’s just a matter of time before everything is combined and technology exists to make all forms of casual entertainment available at our fingertips and on demand (with limited conscious commercial interruption).
I guess I think of it from a telecom provider view. I am with you–these things will be great, and I think it will happen. I just hope its not ALL Microsoft or Google or AT&T or Verizon that has control of it all, ya know?
Realistically, there will probably be a number of providers involved and subcontractors and all that.
But still, if say AT&T owns the infrastructure guess what: They only buy products from a single hardware provider (I’m talking about the stuff at the stations that is never seen).
The recent Lucent merger smack of that–we’re losing business because these huge telecoms now provide to almost all the carriers. Kinda sucks.
When Reagan split up the airlines and when Clinton did the same to the phone lines the results were clear: Jobs for people and better service to customers was the end result.
So yeah, I hope this happens, but I hope it happens responsibly. When CEOs get 50 million dollar bonus for doing nothing it seems that companies have control over some pretty vast stuff… And the customer and joe blow trying to put food on the table for his family are the ones who get screwed.
Wow… That was a rant!