I don’t know what will happen tomorrow, but I know it will be different than yesterday. Obvious, right? Even more obvious, the way we live today is different than 5, 10, and 25 years ago. This is how life works. So why do so many smart people want everything to stay the same.

Richard Corliss for Time Magazine, which alone is having trouble understanding the future of the news business, has several criticisms for Netflix and why it stinks, yet makes certain to contradict himself with his own article. Corliss, a successful movie critic for more than 30 years, has gone blind as to the future and why Netflix is not something to fight, but to embrace. Corliss laments the traditions internet features – no human interaction or leaving the house. Netflix is causing obesity.  It’s also why his local video store closes. Corliss also criticizes Netflix’s wait times (sometimes a whole day) and the dreaded “mail delays and the botched orders.”

Of course, all this is invalidated by Corliss’ own admission that Netflix “has the No. 1 customer-satisfaction rating among online retailers.”  Meaning for all these problems, people really like Netflix and the service it provides (which includes instantly streamed movies to your computer and TV, something he failed to mention).

Corliss, of course, is just about 10 years too late to criticizing Netflix. Does anyone really believe they’ll be renting discs from a store in the next 10 years?

Most of the criticisms against Netflix, Google, YouTube, blogs, and other “new” businesses trends toward the better than/worse now argument from people who were better than/worse now, such as news papers, recording companies, and brick and mortar retailers (and video rentals). But consumers are happy. They have more choice, more convenience, and lower prices leaving them with more time and money to do other things (that’s how an economy grows).