India, March 21 -- In Ready Player One, a Steven Spielberg movie released in 2018, the netizens of a squalid future escape their daily lives through epic gaming sessions on the OASIS platform. Spielberg's vision had already terrified the parents of Fortnite-addicted teenagers, and it looks even more nightmarish after the launch of Google's Stadia platform this week. It's not only parents that should be worried, either: For the chief technology officers of telcos, ISPs and cable operators everywhere, Stadia is one scary prospect.
That's the assessment of Rudolf van der Berg, a Dutch management consultant and Internet expert. In a lengthy assessment of Stadia published here, van der Berg says many of today's broadband networks just won't be ...