I wonder if employers ever speculate about (and grieve over) the gazillions of collective man-hours of worker productivity that have gone straight out the porthole since the advent of online video (i.e., YouTube and the shoulder-to-shoulder, interlaced phalanx of uninspired me-toos that stretch uninterrupted to the digitally-rendered Frank Miller horizon).

Now picture this awesome future, dear oracles (Delphi not Ellison)… If somehow your favorite swarming, peer-assisted data-transfer technology could somehow be used to increase the speed and quality of streaming video — so that high-resolution, full-screen long-form videos and movies could be available instantly at your desktop.

And what if all this was free? Neuron-numbing, no?

Could you imagine even less labor going on in the myriad cubicles clustered across this great land as a result of this innovation? The mindless, raging behemoth that is the American economy would gasp, stumble and fall face first into the unforgiving dust of history…

Now, I’m no subversive and you can call me a pie-eyed dreamer, but with all the geniuses crossing lightsabers around the hallways here at BitTorrent, you’d have to speculate that one (or perhaps several) would pause flying their RC helicopters long enough to perfect this technological advancement.

And when they do, just imagine…

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