You mentioned industrial farming and fridges, yet the combine harvester is just a better scythe, right? I mean both are used to harvest fields. The fridge is an

You mentioned industrial farming and fridges, yet the combine harvester is just a better scythe, right? I mean both are used to harvest fields. The fridge is an icebox that can make its own ice. Business people may use phone calls over video conferencing, but I am willing to bet that they schedule those calls with computers, with telephone numbers they get through a computer system, which also keeps track of their notes, documents, needs and other information. Video calls are probably simply not a good idea, but I have been in many online many-to-many meetings. Not only is it far more flexible, but it is plain easier to see shared documents and presentations when you can see it on your own screen than on some projector partly obscured by some coworkers head. As for Netflix, it is fundamentally different compared to TV in that it puts you in control of what you want to see and when. I realize there are cable boxes now that allow you to do the same in a limited fashion, but those wouldn't have been developed without netflix, and most of them require the internet to deliver those features.