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Sometimes things are very stable

and then they change a lot.

Reed Hastings, the CEO of Netflix. and then they change a lot.

Reed Hastings, the CEO of Netflix.

He was talking May 5th at the Republic of 15 Digital Culture Conference in Berlin.

Although his comment is a neat summary of punctuated equilibrium, his topic was not biological

evolution, but the evolution of how we watch TV.

And we will come to see that Linear TV declines every year for the next 20 years and that Internet

TV rises every year.

The advantage is with Internet TV or you can watch it when you want.

You can watch it on any screen. You can watch it with any combination of subtitles and

dubbing that you want.

And so year by year, linear TV will shrink,

even with sports.

So in the next World Cup, many of you will have 4K televisions, and you'll want to watch the World Cup in 4K.

But broadcast and linear and cable will not be able to provide you a 4K signal. But instead it will come over the

internet. Of course shows over the internet you'll have many choices between

ad supported models like YouTube and commercial free

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