Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.

I founded Netflix. I've built it steadily over 12 years now, first with DVD becoming profitable in 2002, a head-to-head ferocious battle with Blockbuster and evolving the company toward streaming.

On the Internet you get continuous innovation, so every year the streams are a little better.

Fibre optic is becoming like electricity. If you look at how electricity spread around the globe 100 years ago, that's what's happening now.

Broadcast TV is like the landline of 20 years ago.

I think there will be 20 years of evolution from linear broadcast to internet television.

If you look at cable networks, they almost always start licensing content wherever they can, so they can build a subscriber base. But then they start doing their own content; it's a pretty well-trodden path.