The long goodnight… for television, says Vint Cerf

Thirty years ago he helped create a technology that has revolutionised millions of lives around the world. But recently the man known as the “godfather of the net” laid out his vision of where our online future might be, including a time when we download entire television series in seconds – and even surf the web from Mars. Vint Cerf – one of the handful of researchers who helped build the internet in the 1970s – says the television industry would change rapidly as it approached its “iPod moment”.