MooPig Tech Coroner :: "The Death of Paid Television"

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$2.2 trillion Entertainment Industry about to Metamorphose
by Pat Darnell  |  July 15, 2013  |  Bryan TX

When you say "Content," you have said it all. Everyone still wants content. Name all the Tech/Entertainment industries that have been found dead on arrival since the Internet began: Record Companies, big Box Retail Shopping, Telephone, Stockbroking, Bookstores, Travel Agencies, ... what's next?

Our Internet has the ability to transform - transfigure - change - transmute - convert businesses' modes of operation to the point of "transform or get out."

But everyone still listens to music; everyone still watches movies; everyone still trades stocks, everyone still reads newspapers ... just not the way they did last century. Guess what -- everyone still wants to watch television.

And everyone [58%] hates cable TV.

Using your imagination can you imagine a different world of TV? Google Fiber, Apple TV, and Amazon have prepared for this Fall, 2013, to be their declaration of war to win in your living room. A lack of imagination will limit you to doing it the old way, and not being satisfied.

Ask yourself: "Why would I need cable to watch TV?"

New choices ... watching shows online, game consoles can put your favorite shows on your TV. Shows can be watched on mobile devices. Special rabbit ears will get you sports events, circumnavigating cable.

The next generation will not watch TV on cable.


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http://www.fool.com/fool/free-report/18/sa-cabletvaudio-253366.aspx?source=isaspodft0000744
https://fiber.google.com/about/
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/05/20/cable_dying_is_it_cord_cutting.html

What’s Really Driving America’s Budget Deficit In One Chart | MoveOn.Org

What’s Really Driving America’s Budget Deficit In One Chart | MoveOn.Org
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Originally submitted by volunteer editor Mark H. Found on The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities’ website.

Bush Tax Cuts, War Costs Do Lasting Harm to Budget Outlook
Some commentators blame recent legislation — the stimulus bill and the financial rescues — for today’s record deficits. Yet those costs pale next to other policies enacted since 2001 that have swollen the deficit.

Just two policies dating from the Bush Administration — tax cuts and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — accounted for over $500 billion of the deficit in 2009 and will account for almost $7 trillion in deficits in 2009 through 2019, including the associated debt-service costs. ... These impacts easily dwarf the stimulus and financial rescues. Furthermore, unlike those temporary costs, these inherited policies (especially the tax cuts and the drug benefit) do not fade away as the economy recovers (see Figure 1).

Without the economic downturn and the fiscal policies of the previous Administration, the budget would be roughly in balance over the next decade. That would have put the nation on a much sounder footing to address the demographic challenges and the cost pressures in health care that darken the long-run fiscal outlook.[7]

The Effect of President Obama’s Budget
The key question is: where do we go from here? President Obama’s 2011 budget proposes to reduce anticipated deficits over the next ten years, chiefly by letting the Bush tax cuts for high-income taxpayers expire on schedule, closing certain tax loopholes and reforming the international tax system, keeping estate taxes at their 2009 parameters, enacting health care reform, and freezing (in aggregate) most appropriations for non-security domestic programs for the next three years. The President also supports another round of temporary recovery measures that would boost the deficit in 2010 through 2012, a proposal that is appropriate in size and well targeted.[8] Center on Budget and Policy Priorities’ analyses have found that in aggregate, the President’s proposals would reduce deficits over the 2011-2020 period by an estimated $1.3 trillion.[9]

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[7] See Kathy Ruffing, Kris Cox, and James Horney, “The Right Target: Stabilize the Federal Debt,” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, January 12, 2010.
[8] Kris Cox, “President’s Budget Requests $266 Billion to Support Economic Recovery,” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, February 5, 2010.
[9] Kathy A. Ruffing and James R. Horney, “Obama Budget Reduces Deficit by $1.3 Trillion Over Next Decade Compared to Current Policies,” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, April 5, 2010. The Congress subsequently enacted several major proposals — including health-care reform and changes in higher-education programs — that constitute part of that $1.3 trillion in estimated savings.
[10] Brian M. Riedl, “The Three Biggest Myths About Tax Cuts and the Budget Deficit” (Heritage Foundation, June 21, 2010).

It's Information that Generates New Ideas and Drives Decisions for SMB... Small to Mid-size Businesses... and XEROX

"According to IDC Research Firm, offices around the world will produce 4.5 trillion pages of hard copy information by 2007." Introduction to Smarter Document Management
1 “The Role of Documents in Effective Business Processes,” Angele Boyd, IDC, October 2004.

Every organization – small start ups, growing mid-size and global corporations — has made an investment in Information Technology. From 1997 to 2003, U.S. companies spent $2.5 trillion on IT, according to the research firm IDC. IDC research house goes further to state that by 2007, offices around the world will produce 4.5 trillion pages of hard copy information.

The emphasis for businesses as they try to reduce costs and improve productivity is not to eliminate paper, but to streamline how the information embedded in the paper documents is handled.

Many organizations are looking beyond adding technology in order to improve the bottom line; they are looking to the people and processes actively shaping their workplace. They are interested in growing smarter, not bigger.

With the shift in focus, new questions are raised; how can they tailor and manage the technology to best meet their needs, and how can they later alter their processes to best use the technology? When it comes to investing in IT, there is a marked shift from the “T” to the “I” — from the technology to the information. It’s information that generates new ideas and drives decisions (Boyd; 2004).

The Big “I” and Document Challenge

Documents are one of the most critical elements of working life, the key connectors between IT infrastructure, people, and critical business processes. A recent report from IDC characterizes the growing importance of documents as “driven by regulatory compliance, the need to communicate with customers, suppliers and employees across multiple media, and the role of documents in effective business process solutions and related investments”(Boyd; 2004).

The costs that lie in the production, distribution and use of documents are a hidden, overlooked and generally misunderstood aspect of business cost and productivity. In all cases, the documents carry content that constitutes the backbone of work processes. However, that content is still mostly unstructured and hidden within the verbal expressions of text. It is up to individual users to figure out where to take it, what to do with it, how to process it and take an action on it (Boyd; 2004).

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