From the why are we always behind department:
About 8.7 million Europeans will be watching television over the Internet by 2009, or 9.4 percent of a market currently dominated by cable and satellite operators, according to a forecast issued on Monday.
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“It will emerge faster in Europe and Asia than in the United States,” Schmitt added, saying similar initiatives by U.S. telecommunications companies are only just getting underway.
Tell us something we don’t know. On the other hand, being slow and retarded has its benefits: it makes our job of prognosticating pretty simple. All we need to see the future is to catch a flight to London or Tokyo. No more need to spend money on expensive crystal balls (we take no credit for the assumed drop in crystal ball manufacturer’s stock prices).
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