One upside is such environments help nurture future technologies as they will happily pay millions for something just a bit faster than what they already have a

One upside is such environments help nurture future technologies as they will happily pay millions for something just a bit faster than what they already have and more so before others have it. Hence it is avenues of business like this that have help feed certain industries over the years, from networking to FPGA's. Another avenue of financing technology which we all know is the military. As for the whole stock market being driven faster and faster in precision from seconds to nanoseconds and picoseconds, I've always questioned the need to drive towards a faster processing and if the stock market only updated once every minute, it would sure help in curtailing many ineeded aspects that are creeping into stock trading.