I lost a few brain cells thinking about this one
"Soon It Will Be Cheaper to Compute Than to Cache"
As storage gets cheaper, bandwidth gets better, browsers get faster and computers become more efficient it becomes necessary to store duplicate versions of data (in this case video) in different formats or versions. Basically extending this line of thinking all content will be stored in a common "raw" format, then when you need that content in a specific format or language or edited a certain way or excerpts of it, etc, you're computer calls for it within those specifications. All from the same data source.
This obviously has huge implications for multimedia, but imagine how search will be impacted and publishing. Huge implications both as a consumer, a producer and distributor.
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It does make you brain hurt, though....
