Whats wrong with the Internet as it functions today?
Blaise Aguera y Arcas: If we think about the computer as a vehicle or a mechanism for delivering content, it’s primarily visual content, and the Web page is the basic unit of content delivery and viewing. The standards behind the Web have a long history. Originally, Web pages weren’t supposed to have any design in them—the original conception of HTML was just text, and all of the styling was actually up to the browser. Of course, as soon as people started offering Web pages and playing with this as a new medium, there was demand for much greater control over the way it looks. And the same is true of images. If you have an image that’s 400 pixels on a side, then that has a very definite size on the screen, and it also has a very definite weight in terms of the bandwidth it requires. This is why you don’t find images on the Web that are bigger than, at most, a megapixel or so. Has anyone tried to address this? This problem was recognized by the industry a number of years ago, and motivat
