How will the Internet change multimedia and entertainment?
The internet is poised to make some huge change with multimedia and entertainment. It's happening as we speak. We've watched the music revolution, the digital music revolution, and the change in the way music is sold. Now, CDs are disappearing. They're unnecessary. It's going to continue. Television shows will be seen on the internet. You may even find more viewers on the internet than you will on the actual television channels. You'll see movies distributed on the internet. You'll see movies distributed to theatres and the internet simultaneously. You'll be downloading your movies directly to your computer. Then, it will change even more. As the home entertainment environment grows wings and starts to fly, you'll have things like the iPod that can show you TV shows, video, and music and they'll be able to surf the internet; it'll change from there. You'll have your photos, which are digital, able to be viewed on computer screens placed around your house, where your computer tells which computer screen to show the particular slide show from one of your Hawaii vacations or of family pictures, and you can do it at the flick of a finger; at the touch of a button. You're going to see devices like the iPod become multimedia storage hubs with remote control sensors that'll allow you to point your iPod or other MP3 device at a television screen, click a button, and wirelessly display content from the internet or from the iPod onto the TV screen. You'll also be able to point it at a wall and set it up as a projector or onto one of the picture TV screens. Your photos will stop being something that's a static thing, and start being something that's dynamic and alive, and so will the movies, the music, and the TV shows. All of it will become handheld and will travel with you, and you'll be able to watch that show you want to see, that movie you want to see, look at the pictures you want to see or browse the internet from anywhere you go in the world, all off of a device that can be held in the palm of your hand, smaller than a deck of cards.
