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You do realize that what you are describing could have happened any time in the last years or decades for the same reasons but didn’t? The conditions also didn’

• nootropicat 5y ago
  Decades? Bandwidth for global scale videoconferencing didn't exist even 10 years ago, especially in poorer parts of the world. Speeds like 8Mbps/1Mbps or even 8/512kbps over ADSL were common. People also had much weaker hardware. I think the switch to remote work started to really happen just as it actually became practical for a sufficient percentage of people, which is basically now. https://www.submarinenetworks.com/news/global-bandwidth-pricing-trends https://www.submarinenetworks.com/news/global-bandwidth-pric... "Carriers reached an impressive 67Tbps of capacity on their international internet, private and voice networks in 2011" https://www2.telegeography.com/hubfs/assets/Ebooks/state-of-the-network-2021.pdf https://www2.telegeography.com/hubfs/assets/Ebooks/state-of-... "Total international bandwidth now stands at 618 Tbps" (note it's from the same company) That's an increase of 9.2x.
  • nottorp 5y ago
    > Decades? Bandwidth for global scale videoconferencing didn't exist even 10 years ago, especially in poorer parts of the world. We used icq and private irc servers. What's now sold as Slack. Starting 22 years ago. By poorer parts of the world you mean the suburban US? :) I hear they can't get the bandwidth I can get for 10 eur/month at any price.