Be Very Afraid: The Cable-ization of Online Life Is Upon Us

May 2, 2012 - 7:02am — Blake

Imagine what’s possible from Comcast’s perspective: If you can slice and dice traffic, play definitional chess (“that’s not the internet, that’s a specialized service!”), and be the only game in town, you’ll get to replicate the cable model by making sure that every successful online application owes its success in part to you and pays you tribute.