{"id":33741,"date":"2017-01-23T01:02:36","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T09:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/energy-is-the-new-new-internet"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:54:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:54:31","slug":"energy-is-the-new-new-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/energy-is-the-new-new-internet","title":{"rendered":"Energy is the new new internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/energy-is-the-new-new-internet.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re not paying attention to what\u2019s going on in energy, you should. We\u2019ve seen this movie before. Spoiler alert: There\u2019s massive economic opportunity ahead. How massive? Imagine standing in 1992, knowing that Google, Akamai, Netflix, Facebook, Amazon, eBay, BuzzFeed and Uber lay ahead.<\/p>\n<p>This time it\u2019s the \u201cenernet,\u201d not the internet, that will transform our lives. The story is the same, though the players have changed.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the tee up. Across the country, incumbent network providers operate highly centralized networks in their respective cities. Then, scrappy local outfits start serving the market with innovative, distributed technology. These startups create competition, and a new network emerges atop the legacy network.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/01\/22\/energy-is-the-new-new-internet\/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29&utm_content=FaceBook&sr_share=facebook\">https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/01\/22\/energy-is-the-new-new-inte...e=facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re not paying attention to what\u2019s going on in energy, you should. We\u2019ve seen this movie before. Spoiler alert: There\u2019s massive economic opportunity ahead. How massive? Imagine standing in 1992, knowing that Google, Akamai, Netflix, Facebook, Amazon, eBay, BuzzFeed and Uber lay ahead. This time it\u2019s the \u201cenernet,\u201d not the internet, that will transform [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1497,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33741"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59021,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33741\/revisions\/59021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}