In 2000, George Gilder wrote "Telecosm: How Infinite Bandwidth Will Revolutionize Our World" http://www.amazon.com/TELECOSM-Infinite-Bandwidth-Revolutionize-Wo

In 2000, George Gilder wrote "Telecosm: How Infinite Bandwidth Will Revolutionize Our World" http://www.amazon.com/TELECOSM-Infinite-Bandwidth-Revolutionize-World/dp/B000H2MOGY?ie=UTF8 http://www.amazon.com/TELECOSM-Infinite-Bandwidth-Revolution... One blurb from the book that stuck with me was the notion that in theory, accessing an external hard drive half-way across the world via a pure fiber connection could be quicker than accessing an external hard drive on your desk via copper. True? I don't know, but he thought so at the time.