We're in for an information revolution.Engineers in Japan just shattered the world record for the fastest internet speed, achieving a data transmission rate of 319 Terabits per second (Tb/s), according to a paper presented at the International Conference on Optical Fiber Communications in June. From...
Awesome potential. Meanwhile, in the US, people struggle to get broadband speeds at home..
you're imagining it like a single user streaming Robocop 3, instead of seeing it as a single hop of 3,000 km (Islamabad, Pakistan to Chengdu, China), through which 638,000 users are actively downloading data at 500Mb/s.
if you imagine a future where we do cool things with the internet... like share live, high resolution video of technical processes and cultural events, that one pipe could represent the integration of a lot of people/institutions into a growing, free global library/community.
you're imagining it like a single user streaming Robocop 3, instead of seeing it as a single hop of 3,000 km (Islamabad, Pakistan to Chengdu, China), through which 638,000 users are actively downloading data at 500Mb/s.
if you imagine a future where we do cool things with the internet... like share live, high resolution video of technical processes and cultural events, that one pipe could represent the integration of a lot of people/institutions into a growing, free global library/community.