This is an interesting article, full of doom and gloom, about how the internet is evolving and the infrastructure is lagging this evolution. 'Twas ever thus.
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One of the internet's founding fathers, Vint Cerf, predicted last week that television as we know it would soon be dead, and that an era of television-on-demand, downloaded directly from the internet, would become the norm. It has got internet service providers quaking in their boots. If increasing numbers of us start to use our internet connections to access feature-rich content, uploading and downloading large files on an almost-continuous basis, we will be putting a huge strain on the broadband infrastructure of this country.
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Britain faces the broadband test - Telegraph