Link: The Surging Tides of a Digital Torrent.
With cable-TV operators and technology vendors like Microsoft (MSFT ) making a big push into the digital video recorder market pioneered by TiVo, television is poised to flip from an archetypal one-way broadcast service to a Web-like interactive model. A growing percentage of those digital video recorders can pull content from the Internet as well. And last year, over 150 million camera-enabled mobile phones were sold, a number expected to grow to 500 million in four years.
By the end of the decade, therefore, a billion people will have the ability to contribute not just text but photos and video instantly to the global virtual conversation.
Kevin Werbach is an Assistant Professor at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, founder of the Supernova Group, and the organizer of the Supernova Conference
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