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> fibers provide overwhelmingly more bandwidth capacity than (almost) anyone needs Until everyone wants to use the SpaceX Mars Landing Live Immersion app on th
by dividedbyzero 6y ago
> fibers provide overwhelmingly more bandwidth capacity than (almost) anyone needs
Until everyone wants to use the SpaceX Mars Landing Live Immersion app on their Apple Shades that streams the entire 360° 3D 16k Ultra HDR helmet camera with fully directional sound. Or a protracted pandemic forces people to actually iterate on remote work tech, and instead of god-awful laptop webcams, eventually setups with 4k 3D video become the norm, and then you may have two working adults and kids taking remote lessons at the same time... not saying that current-gen fiber will become too slow anytime soon, and I'm sure there's still a lot of headroom left, but such statements have a tendency to age badly.
Not that I'm against treating this as a utility (I think that's absolutely the way to go), but it should be one that has frequent upgrades planned into it (unlike e.g. sewers)