Dot-com billionaire Mark Cuban has been trying to spread the message that "the Internet is dead," arguing that broadband growth is going to be minimal and that web applications are stagnant. In an interview with Portfolio.com, he was challenged to explain the contradictions between a May statement encouraging investment in fiber optics to increase bandwidth and the July statement that the Internet is dead. He responded that comparing the current Internet with his proposed fiber plans is like comparing the original Wright Brothers plane to the new Boeing. He went on to say that there is nothing exciting about the current Internet and that it is necessary to upgrade to a 1 gigabyte per second minimum platform to re-energize it.