Two things are striking if one right-arrows through each year from the beginning: the wall for local circuit latency hit around 2005/2006, and the limitations t

Two things are striking if one right-arrows through each year from the beginning: the wall for local circuit latency hit around 2005/2006, and the limitations the speed of light puts on global latency from the beginning. The harsh takeaway I get from these presentations is that the speed of light is just not as stellar as we'd like, and that's a challenge.