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So it doesn't seem to be coming any time soon. But I can't imagine that on the long run, moving encoded atoms would be faster than sending encoded EM waves.
by comboy 9y ago
So it doesn't seem to be coming any time soon. But I can't imagine that on the long run, moving encoded atoms would be faster than sending encoded EM waves.
- Piskvorrr 9y agoScale matters. The latter is faster almost always - when it's not...well, now that's newsworthy ;)
- comboy 9y agoTo be clear I meant what is going to be faster when amount of data to transfer approaches infinity. But I realized that maybe I'm asking the whole question wrong. We could actually be faster than those track using even CAT-5 today, it's just that the cost of the installation is prohibitive. So I guess the proper form of the question would be when if ever the cost of transmitting using electrons/photons will be lower.
- Piskvorrr 9y agoIMNSHO the demand will expand to fill the increase in capacity. With 1Mbps came video streaming, with 10Mbps came HD video, with 100Mbps came 4K streams. Any capacity the pipe can provide, the network can saturate.
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- SomeStupidPoint 9y agoIt's a lot easier to isolate your atoms from noise. There's a giant nuclear fireball blasting half the planet at a time with EM, everything is radiating EM (even on some of the communication bands!), most of the things will diffract or reflect EM, and we don't know of a way to isolate EM using only EM. So atoms seem to have a better asymptotic isolation in known physics, and thus conceivably might always be faster due to potential noise in the respective channels.