The days of the free Internet will draw to a close over the next five years, according to the chairman and chief executive of IAC, the interactive services company which operates a collection of more than 30 Internet sites which produce $1.5 billion a year in revenue.
The only missing link, according to Barry Diller, who cut his teeth building up over-the-air and cable TV networks: a good billing system, akin to Amazon’s “one-click” button or the Apple iPhone’s slick downloading of paid applications.
“I absolutely believe the Internet is passing from its free days into a paid system. Inevitably, I promise you, it will be paid,” Diller said in a keynote discussion opening up the Advertising 2.0 conference held at his company’s futuristic glass building alongside the Hudson River in Manhattan. “Not every single thing, but anything of value. “
You can’t tax it if it doesn’t cost anything…
After the sunspot fiasco in 2012, there won’t be computers and internet anyway. Mud huts, disease, and dung fires for everyone. The green movement will be come the grey movement when they win by default. Is that too dark a prediction?
So what, you say. Check sunspot activity for various dates in history at sunspotplotter
And here are some dates :
Very Low Activity:
Obama's Inauguration Day (1/20/2009)
Hitler's Birthday (4/20/1889)
Einstein's Birthday (3/14/1879)
Darwin's Birthday (2/12/1809)
Very High Activity:
September 11, 2001
Start of WWII (9/1/1939)
Launch of Sputnik (10/4/1957)
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly
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