They entertain themselves in chat rooms and use shopping bots to get the lowest-possible price. As the future plays out, they will be less and less likely to watch the Bill Clinton miniseries just because it's on their network. Finally, Moore's Law turns out to have a lot of loopholes. Gordon Moore's famous prediction from the early 70s that processor power would double every 18 months proved sur-prisingly prescient. But that doesn't mean we get twice the power in our systems every year and a half.
Microprocessors are only one part of the overall video production, delivery, and consumption system.
Microprocessors can go on evolving at a rapid rate, but they won't help us get quality video into homes and offices if the rest of the production and consumption chain isn't evolving at the same rate and, most important, being deployed equally quickly. Perhaps even more challenging, we'll need to solve the bottlenecks that will occur when 800 million surfers simultaneously log on the Super Bowl site and try to tap the feed from the wireless camera strapped to the field judge. A lot of money will be made solving that problem. While I admit there's some-thing appealing about reducing Sam Donaldson to the size of Tom Thumb, Web video clearly is not yet an art form for subtleties. Because, as customers have proven over and over, they don't care about bandwidth and quality.