"Geeks who are concerned about downloading movies" That line shows you don't get it...
I'm no geek but I am concerned about downloading movies. My local video library closed a month ago. I would like to rent movies online but I can't even tho I live 10 Klms from a capital city centre. My connection is so slow telstra won't supply a t-box. My choice now is to drive twice as far should I wish to hire a movie. And 4 times as far when that one closes.
I also do a lot of image work, and have co-written two books in the last two years. Both books are heavy on image and graphics content. My poor Internet connection made this an extremely turgid process. Picture people sitting at desks drumming fingers while Dropbox inexorably syncs files of double digit sizes.
Can you not look back at what society did with the Internet ten years ago, and what it's doing now, and then conclude that, with its exponential growth, we will be using the net to do staggering things in the future? Things I can't imagine, let alone the Luddites (literally) who constantly repeat that a substandard Internet service will be adequate because they can't bear to acknowledge that their particular political pin ups could be wrong about something.
There are 8 things connected to the net in my house. Ten years ago, there was one. Ten years ago, I didn't use the net to do banking, shopping, tax returns, cloud computing, video phone calls, send 50 mbs of data to colleagues, pay my bills... to name a few. Did I mention I'm in my 50s? Not a geek, but I can see where this is going. And when I'm in my 70s, and maybe housebound, I damn well want to stay connected and in control of more of my own life. And watch a movie on my 8k TV without having to ask my kids to get one for me!!!
