Intelligent Video-On-Demand and music file sharing can offer a very lean-back experience, compared to the lean-forward effort required to deal with most tools for p2p file sharing, or multi-channel TV.
A very simple idea for low-tech location-sensitivity for venues, which usesonly mobile text-messaging, some printed signs and a central database.
While consumers continue to pay per-byte for access to the weightless web, there’s an unexplored opportunity for content owners to incentivise consumers’ selection of their sources of media rather than bootlegged copies.
Ages ago, we had the idea for the net.sack; a small rucksack thing with stalk camera and headset mic/earpiece, and decent bandwidth cellphone transmitting it all. So you could rent yourself out to whoever is at the other end of the connexion, and they can watch and direct — for remote shopping, tourism in general, whatever makes sense ethically and/or economically.