Watch a tv show in 2000: Buy a TV, pay for cable, watch TV with many commercials. Watch a tv show in 2010: Go to your library's computer (or the computer you p

Watch a tv show in 2000: Buy a TV, pay for cable, watch TV with many commercials. Watch a tv show in 2010: Go to your library's computer (or the computer you probably already have), access hulu.com, watch for free with minimal commercials. Buy a song in 2000: Drive to a store, buy the CD for $15 and cd player Buy a song in 2010: iTunes or Amazon for $.99. The point is not that nothing is free, or that it may never be free, but that it's very cheap and very accessible with less effort and fewer different orthogonal pieces of specialized hardware.