With the merger, Dill is VP and CIO of AOL Time Warner. In short, it will be Dill's job to look for new business opportunities and to make the combined companies work. Dill pointed out that the era of interactive television and high-speed Internet connections with broadband is already here. He predicted that we will see a huge increase in Internet usage and options available to the consumer by 2002. We have the first elements of digital TV and interactive TV coming out in small segments to homes.
TV is really the last non-interactive mass medium.
Everything is going to be interactive . . . . Convergence is coming. Within two years, it will be widely discussed and used, but it will probably be 2004 before it is up to the current level of Internet usage. A major technical hurdle, he noted, is video compression technology. Wireless will become even more popular.