Kara Swisher

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Why Web TV Is the Future, Part 5,376,364

See this umpteenth example of why the Internet creates the perfect medium for the quick broadcast of breaking news. In this video of the burning of a major highway overpass right at the foot of the Bay Bridge near San Francisco this weekend, you might not like all the omigod blabbing in the background. But it’s about what most people would be saying and just what the audience wants to see. Sure it was on television too, but its immediacy here is compelling.


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Moore’s Law means that more and more things can be done practically for free, if only it weren’t for those people who want to be paid. People are the flies in Moore’s Law’s ointment. When machines get incredibly cheap to run, people seem correspondingly expensive.

— From Jaron Lanier’s new book, “Who Owns the Future?” excerpted on Wired.com