Improbable Insights

Implications of Streaming Everything Meaning Content providers seem to want to stream all content these days. It began, of course, with music. Now we're streaming TV shows, movies, custom content (Youtube, Twitch.tv), games, and even applications. Large backbone companies like AT&T, Comcast, and Google are laying fiber at a feverish rate so users can eventually have gigabit connections to the home. But what about the home? Consumer routers are poorly designed for a streaming environment requiring dozens of connections. Homes are poorly designed to handle high capacity wireless connections. The requirements inside homes increasingly resemble small server farms. And what are the implications for ownership? Will all content be ephemeral in the future? Will we all become subscribers and renters? The challenges of the feverish march by the industry to stream everything creates problems and implications we're still grappling with. Tools MePhoto makes the C1360, a cool little carbon fiber tripod that weighs unde