The Digital Media Project

The Digital Media Manifesto

chiariglione.org

Riding the Media Bits
Digital Media Project
Digital Media Manifesto
Leonardo
Site Map
Home
Other Languages
	中文
	Deutsch
	Castellano
	Français
	Italiano
	日本語
	í•œêµ
	Português
More Languages Welcome

Disillusionments

Last update: 2003/07/14

Ten years after deployment of Digital Media has started, the Digital Media Revolution is not delivering on its promises. A sense of disillusionment is seeping in for all value network players and users.

Players		Achievements		Disillusionments
content providers	•	create more content, more easily and with more features	•	lose control of their content once it is delivered
	•	manage assets more easily and effectively	•	lose control of previously released content
	•	offer more content better matched to end users' wishes
"old" service providers	•	use more delivery means	•	make little or no money
	•	reach more customers
	•	offer richer content selections
	•	slash delivery costs
"new" service providers	•	opportunities of intermediation have multiplied	•	no one makes money
telcos	•	upgrade one-to-one delivery infrastructure to broadband	•	not done - little or no money to be made
manufacturers	•	develop and market all sorts of new devices for all players on the value chain	•	either manufactured under unprofitable conditions or do not sell
end users	•	potential to achieve "any content - anytime - anywhere - on any device - in any form"	•	only under doubtful or illegal conditions
public authorities	•	technologies allowing potential achievement of goals produced	•	policy of effecting a quantum step in the well-being of citizens not achieved

Most of the achievements express a potential, while the disillusionments express a current practical impossibility to exploit the potential. Let's analyse why it turned out this way.

Send an e-mail to comment — See the communication policy — Back to Manifesto home page