content: Imagine if one cable from your desktop/laptop functioned as both audio and video out as well as peripherals like your keyboard, mouse, external hdd with speeds almost indistinguishable from your internal storage, flash drives, printer, etc with passthough networking as well as power delivery, in this kind of scenario your monitor would have a usb hub integrated and all your peripherals connect to its ports but it connects everything to your pc with one cable and you'd never notice any kind of performance issues, and there would probably be enough bandwidth left over for a second or even third display daisy chained similar to whats possible with Displayport 1.2 devices.  Right now its a kind of build it and they will come approach, theres fuck all asides from a few kinds of external SSD drives that could take advantage of this but the USB implementers forum are constantly trying to disseminate and diversify USB products in new areas to replace existing established standards. We could one day see USB replacing DVI, HDMI, Displayport, Ethernet, SATA, and so on. HDMI Forum (guess what they make) and VESA (displayport) are all competing with each other to be the one stop standard. Hardware manufactures are always trying to bring the complexity down as a way to save time (manufacturing and design) and money so there is a real drive to minimize the number of outputs you need to include in order to have enough features to be competitive product for consumer.