Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

Fri Jun 26 20:11:22 UTC 2015

That comment was made from a customer perspective (myself) while I wonder
if I ever would wanna pay for it, although it seems like it's pretty cheap
already. As an entrepreneur, business, etc... then yes, I agree. Shoot for
the stars and land on the moon. :)

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 3:02 PM, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:

> On Fri, 2015-06-26 at 13:39 -0500, Rafael Possamai wrote:
> > How does one fully utilize a gigabit link for home use? For a single
> person
> > it is overkill.
>
> This sentiment keeps popping up. It's a failure of vision. To suggest
> that "single people" or "ordinary people" or any other set of presumably
> average and uninteresting people will never be able to fully utilise the
> amazing properties of X, and that they can and should be satisfied with
> some limited version of X or the even more limited alternative Y, is to
> completely miss the point. And to actually provide no more than that is
> to build a self-fulfilling prophecy.
>
> Look at pretty much any modern technology and you can be sure that when
> it was first invented someone wearing the then equivalent of a brown
> cardigan said "yes, that's all very well, but what use will ordinary
> people ever have for it?".
>
> When the first little fire sputtered into life in some Neanderthal cave
> you can bet that some troglodyte said "no point make bigger, me warm
> enough, more hot waste of effort", but of course he hadn't thought of
> bronze, iron, steel, glass, welding or rocketry. Or the steam engine or
> the internal combustion engine. What luck that his kids ignored him, eh?
>
> As William Gibson wrote, "the street finds its uses for things".
>
> I can't think of anything I would or could do with a terabit Internet
> link - but it's not me who needs it. It's the kids now in school who
> will build it, and their kids will think it commonplace. And they will
> look back at you and me and think "how did our grandparents ever manage
> with only a couple of gigabits? How limiting!" And while they are
> thinking that, some bright young things will report that they think
> they've got a primitive exabit link working...
>
> Regards, K.
>
> PS: There are only three real values for network speeds, just as there
> are only three values for amount of personal fortune, RAM, disk space
> and CPU speed. The three values are "not enough", "enough" and "I don't
> know". Always aspire to "I don't know".
>
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