I apologize for the seemingly random nature of this post. I started with just the premise that “time is not an illusion” and ended up speaking about entropy. Time is just an arbitrary means to quantify a system’s entropy. Everything decays. Everything moves from new to old to degeneration into its fundamental components. New represents […]
While the idea of meaningful space travel may not require truly long distances (such as from Earth to the Moon, where meaningful might involve a Moon-based colony), it largely does. Even Earth to Mars would require about 21 months of travel for a round-trip. Imagine, then, the idea of traveling outside of the solar system
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Throughout 2023, when generative AI exploded onto the scene with ChatGPT, I heard a lot of marketers say, “oh yes, now I can get all my content generated without having to employ actual people.” They ideas was they would be able to work more quickly, save a bunch of money (with reduced headcount and freelancers
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I started thinking the other day about how we have been trying to model consciousness: physical. Researchers have long been trying to build a physical computer which mimics the scale of the human brain. The basic thought is that the architecture of the brain, the number of neurons and synapses, is largely what’s responsible for
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You’ve probably already seen a bunch of predictions about streaming in 2024. Maybe Evan Shapiro? Maybe Thierry Fautier? And while these are excellent sources for looking at streaming as an industry or a business, I’m not really interested in that. As the Executive Director of the Streaming Video Technology Alliance, I sit in a unique
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There has been a lot of talk over the years about making the streaming video experience more “personalized.” But what does that really mean? For the most part, personalization has been about content recommendations. When the viewer can come to the streaming platform and see content that might be more relevant to their likes or behavior, it can
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I’ve said this before but it bears repeating: streaming is an evolutionary step in the television experience. Some of that has to do with how viewers can watch TV content now: from anywhere at any time, across different devices and screen sizes. The same content that was once shackled to the EPG by the cable
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Free ad-supported television (FAST) services have grown considerably since the pandemic. Of course, pioneers of the model, like Pluto TV, existed before the crisis, but it wasn’t until everyone was sequestered at home and wanting to stream everything that FAST really became important. Why? Perhaps one reason was because people wanted access to more choice
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You might think it’s crazy of me, as the executive director of the world’s largest streaming technical association, to ask the question in this column’s title. But I think it’s actually important that we do a gut check every once in a while. Streaming is, fundamentally, just a delivery mechanism. In fact, one could argue
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As streaming has grown in demand and popularity over the last several years, a problem has begun to take shape. But don’t get me wrong, it’s a good problem: too much content. It’s not just the content on a single provider. Netflix, Disney+, WarnerDiscovery, and Peacock all have deep and rich libraries of content. But
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