I think the far distant future internet will distinguish between cached and uncached data, especially for international and interplanetary communication. So an

I think the far distant future internet will distinguish between cached and uncached data, especially for international and interplanetary communication. So any kind of data that can be easily hashed and disseminated over ad hoc networks will be basically free and unstoppable (BitTorrent and Netflix will be the same thing). But data that has to be sent from scratch instead of referencing a hash will have to pay some kind of toll, albeit a small one. It's simple to see the endgame of this: there will be an economic incentive to favor storage formats that reference existing data whenever possible. What’s really remarkable to me is that ISPs don’t seem to understand this, and by killing net neutrality they are hastening the demise of their own business model. It’s going to be a little rough for 5-10 years, but when everyone’s cell phone has p2p gigabit wifi, I find it a little hard to imagine that ISPs will even exist as a business, outside of the government or things like banking where a hard line/low latency is desirable. So writing this out now, I see that latency is everything, so a few decades from now, what low latency industries are they hoping to capitalize on? Maybe gaming, surgery, telepresence, high frequency trading.. Netflix is just a cover story.