Video 2040

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'Video 2040 is a tour de force, anchored in Eli Noam's deep understanding of the factors shaping a world of more personalized and immersive entertainment, education, and cultural experiences and their social implications. A must read for those seriously interested in the future of media, communication, and information technology.' -- William H. Dutton, University of Oxford, UK 'Eli Noam thoroughly understands video technology and how content creators use its advancement in innovative ways. In this work he comprehensively explores and projects the next generation of technology and creativity that will shape the evolution of entertainment, gaming, advertising, interactivity and all the other ways consumers will use video.' -- Bob Zitter, Retired EVP and Chief Technology Officer, HBO, USA 'The Internet came alive in 1969, but you wouldn't know it. It was text-forward, never intended to carry video, just text, mostly uppercase and fixed pitch among us computer nerds. Today the Internet is video-forward - more than 90% of Internet traffic is video among us social media influencers and our victims. The Internet's path from text to video was tortuous. Unpredictable. So Professor Noam is brave to predict the future of video out a decade or more. He calls it Video 4.0. He compounds his prognostications by sketching the roles to be played by artificial intelligence. He worries about whether Internet infrastructure can keep up. My prediction is that Video 4.0 will have all the infrastructure it needs. We are already working to standardize terabit Ethernet.' -- Bob Metcalfe, University of Texas, USA