{"id":930,"date":"2006-03-19T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-19T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.gonomad.com\/2006\/03\/19\/mom-can-i-download-now-please\/"},"modified":"2006-03-19T16:06:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-19T16:06:00","slug":"mom-can-i-download-now-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maxhartshorne.com\/2006\/03\/mom-can-i-download-now-please.html","title":{"rendered":"Mom, Can I Download Now&#8230;.Please!?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold\">Mark Cuban<\/span> is the outspoken owner of the Dallas Mavericks and a founder of Broadcast.com, which he sold to Yahoo for billions. He talks about a problem that we will all be talking about in the future&#8230;on his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogmaverick.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blogmaverick.com<\/a> site.<\/p>\n<p>You heard it here first.  In the next few years, if you have multiple heavy net users at home, you will be <span style=\"font-weight:bold\">scheduling your internet time and downloads.<\/span> Instead of Net Nanny at home, you will have Download Nanny on yours and the kids or roommates PCs.  If your roommate tries to download a 2gb movie at 9pm, and you still have to work to do later, you cant face the risk of the connection slowing to a crawl and timing out . You are going to set Download Nanny to pop up the dreaded \u201cI dont think so Tim\u201d window that reschedules the download to whatever open time it calculates is available based on the average download speed at any given time of day for your internet connection.<\/p>\n<p>We will reach a point in the next few years where we are complaining about internet speed all the time.  This wont be a corporate issue, it will be a home issue. We wont be able to do all the things we want to do on the net how and when we want to do it.<\/p>\n<p>As far as the idea that everything we will ever want to watch on TV, the concept of unlimited video on demand from the internet ?  The videos will be out there, stored on the net somewhere. THe problem is, you wont be able to download them and watch them whenever you want. You will be able to download them when you have bandwidth available and can schedule time to do it.<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-930\" data-postid=\"930\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-930 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Cuban is the outspoken owner of the Dallas Mavericks and a founder of Broadcast.com, which he sold to Yahoo for billions. He talks about a problem that we will all be talking about in the future&#8230;on his blogmaverick.com site. You heard it here first. In the next few years, if you have multiple heavy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ponderings","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxhartshorne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxhartshorne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxhartshorne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxhartshorne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxhartshorne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maxhartshorne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxhartshorne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxhartshorne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxhartshorne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}