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That's like saying 640K ought to be enough for everyone. Once we have stable 1GBit connections on all landlines and mobile devices, we might eg stop hoarding da
by manmal 9y ago
That's like saying 640K ought to be enough for everyone. Once we have stable 1GBit connections on all landlines and mobile devices, we might eg stop hoarding data on our disks altogether. Apps (if they still exist) could be downloaded on the fly when the user chooses to start them. Lifelike VR/AR communications could be enabled by this. Teleworking could become a no-brainer, from any location imaginable (perhaps with telepresence). I will be able to run a dev machine on some EC2 instance and VNC into it with an unnoticeable lag, so I won't need serious CPU horsepower in my laptop anymore. That's what I could think of off the top of my head..
- viraptor 9y agoI don't think that comparable to 640k. Things you mention are are either what I define cherry on top (VR/AR meeting? Why? Teleworking is already present and completely doable on low bandwidth, mid latency - I'm doing it every day). VNC lag issues are mostly exactly what I mentioned. You already have enough bandwidth - it's the latency that affects you. Besides, high detail remote desktop are a small, specialised segment, relatively speaking. If you're a developer, most of the time you work with text. If you're an office worker, most of the time you work with fairly static apps like office. Sure, you can't really work with remote blender at the moment, but we're getting into improvements for the long tail now - which is great. But once we're past 10mbps, improving latency will help more people than improving bandwidth.