The Web is a utility medium Hard data contradicts the common belief that entertainment is the future of the Web.
Real users use the medium to get things done.
I saw the Net rather less grandly as a medium providing services and information with as much flair as scarce bandwidth would tolerate. We quickly parted. The entrepreneur got much richer for a while, at least on paper, even though he never produced any Internet entertainment of note. For a while, echoes of the movie industry bewitched the Internet economy and its already starry-eyed followers. Telstra executives and their advertisements preached a future of convergent, video-rich multimedia.