[gurps] Re: Internet on blue planet and like worlds

[Onno Meyer]

Jeff replied to me:
> Historically, bandwidth has always lagged behind *desired* content. Even 
> today, high quality video phones aren't feasible without expensive 
> dedicated links. Telepresence and other bulk surveillance will expand to 
> fill any reasonable capacity shared bandwidth.

Yes, but historically internet appeared on the scene when we had 
a couple of billion people, one billion of them in the industrialized 
world, where they had ample time to become used to more new 
movies than they could possibly watch. 

However, desired content must be produced. What percentage of
the internet users are producing massive amounts of content, 
rather than just consuming content? Now scale that down to a
population of less than two million. 

By the time a colony world has the equivalent of Hollywood, or 
Oprah, or YouTube, we're not talking about a startup colony any
more.