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Nothing prevents it, except practicality: running enough fibers to support a terabit point to point is already hard enough. Add in needing to support millions o
by yuliyp 5y ago
Nothing prevents it, except practicality: running enough fibers to support a terabit point to point is already hard enough. Add in needing to support millions of people and it becomes impossible. As is, internet routers and fiber links already use tons of power. Asking for 1000xing that just can't happen without a dyson sphere or something.
- t-writescode 5y agoI don't know if I'd go that far - we can probably get more than 1000x throughput without absorbing the whole power of the sun - but it would require some meaningful amounts of infrastructure improvements and replacements.
- yuliyp 5y agoFair enough. I used a dyson sphere as a shorthand for "a power generation technology giving us orders of magnitude more power than we are generating now"