Internet affects $240 B industries

Internet affects $240 B industries

Media Who When Industry Size

Text/www CERN ‘89 --

Graphics NCSA 3/93 print media 153*

Audio SoundM 3/93 Telephony >3 cos 3/95 long distance 65 Contin. Prog.Net 4/95 radio, record 21

Video Qtime 3/93 CU-SeeMe 10/93 teleph. video cnf 91 Mbone 7/92 tv,cable,film 78*

3D & animation... 3/95 --

*book 24, newspaper 48, magazine 21, printing 60; tv 28, cable 21, filmed entertainment 29

**from Technologic partners 4/10/95

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Notes:

This is an important table because it shows that about a quarter trillion dollars of industries are affected by Internet. It shows that as Internet can begin to deliver more complex media, then it can compete with other industries.

Today, most bits are carried by atoms. With Internet, bits are distributed by electrons and photons to our screens. This notion of bits and atoms is best explained in the book Being Digital by Nicholas Negroponte, head of MIT's Media Lab. With just graphics the entire book, newspaper, magazine and printing industries of $150 billion will be affected. Similarly when video becomes available, everything from TV to videophones will change.