responses to 'The Internet is Dead and Boring'

Some people say he's a hack, and some that it is a publicity stunt... But
the comments are still worth reviewing.

Cuban's Theory & The Internet Infrastructure Questions
Written by Om Malik
Tuesday, August 28, 2007 at 6:12 PM PT |

Mark Cuban, the histrionics-prone billionaire and owner of the Dallas
Mavericks, caused a major ruckus over the weekend when he wrote a stinging
essay entitled "The Internet is Dead and Boring."

The essay lit a fire under the bloggers, who turned into NBA officials for
the day, declaring - loudly - that Cuban was in the wrong. But his arguments
- while laced with impatience and full of disregard for the financial
realities faced by incumbent carriers - when viewed through an
infrastructure lens are in fact quite sound.

Read more at
http://gigaom.com/2007/08/28/cubans-theory-the-internet-infrastructure-quest
ions/



The World According to ... Mark Cuban
posted by Lloyd Grove on Aug 23 2007
The maverick investor discusses the internet, trading, high-definition TV,
and Rupert Murdoch.

Much like Friedrich Nietzsche, who scandalized 19th-century Europe by
declaring that "God is dead," Mark Cuban has some bad news for all the true
believers who are investing billions in the Web.

The internet is "dead and boring," Cuban says in an interview with
Portfolio.com. "We have reached the point of diminishing returns with
today's internet. The speed of broadband to your home won't increase much
more in the next five years than it has in the last five years. That is not
enough to work as a platform for new levels of applications that will
require much, much higher levels of bandwidth."

Read more at
http://www.portfolio.com/views/columns/the-world-according-to/2007/08/23/Mar
k-Cuban

In response to himself...
posted by Mark Cuban on Aug 24th 2007 5:53PM

A lot of people are all up and upset about my comments that the Internet is
dead and boring. Well guess what, it is. Every new technological, mechanical
or intellectual breakthrough has its day, days, months and years. But they
don't rule forever. That's the reality.

Every generation has its defining breakthrough. Cars, TV, Radio,
Planes,highways, the wheel, the printing press, the list goes on forever.
I'm sure in each generation to whom the invention was a breakthrough it may
have been heretical to consider those inventions "dead and boring". The
reality is that at some point they stop changing. They stop evolving. They
become utilities or utilitarian and are taken for granted.

Some of you may not want to admit it, but that's exactly what the net has
become. A utility. It has stopped evolving.

Read more at
http://www.blogmaverick.com/2007/08/24/the-internet-is-dead-and-boring/