The end of television into sight?

Vince Cerf, one of the founding fathers of the Internet, has predicted the end of television in the coming years.

Television will soon be a thing of the past, replaced by the Internet. So said Cerf, TV was approaching its iPod-moment. In the same way that people download music onto their iPod, TV-viewers will soon be downloading programmes on their computers.
Some critics warned the world wide web would collapse when everyone will be downloading programmes at the same time. Cerf responded by dismissing this warnings as ‘scare tactics’.

Will the internet be able to replace television? Maybe we will find out by 2012.

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1071310/Internet-downloads-spell-end-television-2012.html

Sophie Van Lier