I saw the headline of Mark Cuban’s “The Internet is Dead and Boring” post and I decided not to read it thinking it would just be some lame diatribe about how YouTube sucks by an NBA owner who is bored in the offseason. But then the masses came out attacking his statements and I decided to read his response (which he added to his original post); I was very surprised to realize that I almost completely agree with what he is ultimately saying.

While “dead and boring” may be a bad way of putting it – no doubt meant to grab attention and headlines – the core argument that the Internet is becoming increasingly stagnant because of the awful broadband situation in America is a very good and I think valid point. While everything may seem okay today, in the not-too-distant future we could very well start seeing an Internet in this country that is under way too much stress due to things IPTV and high definition video downloads.

There have been numerous reports that the Internet just isn’t ready for all of this data, which isn’t entirely true – it’s that the ISPs and those in charge of broadband are greedy, slow, and idiots and will not be able to get their act together in time for such a large data influx.

“Dead” may not be such a bad thing for now, because as Cuban points out it is allowing for applications such as Facebook and all of Google’s services to flourish and optimize for what we have now. But I definitely agree that 5 years down the road if we still just have what we have right now, it’s going to be very disappointing, and there is an increasingly real chance that that could be the case unless the broadband in America is pushed to be, if not #1, at least in the top 5 in the world. Other countries have faster wireless connections on their cellphones than much of this country does via fiber-optic cable, that is just ridiculous.

What Mark Cuban should have said was probably something like “The Internet Could In Trouble (In 5 Years)”, but not nearly as many people would read and commented on such a passive statement. The Internet being “dead and boring” is fine and probably even good for right now, but like everything in our increasingly fast-twitch society, that will get very old, very quick.