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They need to reword the law to keep up with Moore's Law, so that if you built a home in 2023 you'd be required to have 1 gigabit, in 2024 you'd be required to h

by dheera 4y ago

They need to reword the law to keep up with Moore's Law, so that if you built a home in 2023 you'd be required to have 1 gigabit, in 2024 you'd be required to have 1.2 gigabit, in 2025 you'd be required to have 1.44 gigabit, etc. The moment internet connections don't keep up with Moore's Law, the real estate typhoons would then have no choice but to fund bandwidth-related R&D to get internet connections back on track with the requirement before they could sell more homes.

skybrian 4y ago
But why? How many videos are you going to watch at the same time?
- barnabee 4y ago
  Not sure about the answer to that exact question but I’d like to turn my PC on and be able to update any game I feel like playing in less than 5 minutes. Sometimes there are many 10s of gigabytes of updates.
- gernb 4y ago
  Everyone always thinks the current bandwidth is enough.... it never is. I have no idea what the future hold but a typical VR movie is ~20gig I'm not saying VR is going to take off but maybe streamed AR virtual presence might and it will require more bandwidth than today's video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7raHNfPc6A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7raHNfPc6A And even if that doesn't, something always comes up that needs more bandwidth.
  - dheera 4y ago
    This is also what worries me about fusion energy. They say we'll have "unlimited" energy but it's really not unlimited, it can be petawatts but it's still finite, and people will invent new devices that will drain all of the fusion fuel as well instead of powering our current lifestyle. People won't own cars, they'll fly themselves everywhere because it's "okay" to consume megawatts per person, and we'll end up draining all the oceans of their deuterium. It's exactly what happened when oil was discovered, it was thought of as an "unlimited" energy source in the days of horses. On the plus side fusion energy is carbon-clean, but its fuel is most certainly finite.
- Sebb767 4y ago
  > But why? How many web sites are you going to open at once? You in 2010 about 10 Mbit/s, probably. Okay, with less snark, having the capacity just opens up so much more opportunities. Imagine live streaming VR, hosting a video conferencing server, working with remote drives etc.. It really makes no sense to limit our data connections by current use cases, when current use cases are limited by our current data connections. Especially since there is no technical reason to do so.
nl 4y ago
Moore's law has never applied to network capacity.

by dheera 4y ago

skybrian 4y ago

But why? How many videos are you going to watch at the same time?

barnabee 4y ago
Not sure about the answer to that exact question but I’d like to turn my PC on and be able to update any game I feel like playing in less than 5 minutes. Sometimes there are many 10s of gigabytes of updates.
gernb 4y ago
Everyone always thinks the current bandwidth is enough.... it never is. I have no idea what the future hold but a typical VR movie is ~20gig I'm not saying VR is going to take off but maybe streamed AR virtual presence might and it will require more bandwidth than today's video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7raHNfPc6A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7raHNfPc6A And even if that doesn't, something always comes up that needs more bandwidth.
- dheera 4y ago
  This is also what worries me about fusion energy. They say we'll have "unlimited" energy but it's really not unlimited, it can be petawatts but it's still finite, and people will invent new devices that will drain all of the fusion fuel as well instead of powering our current lifestyle. People won't own cars, they'll fly themselves everywhere because it's "okay" to consume megawatts per person, and we'll end up draining all the oceans of their deuterium. It's exactly what happened when oil was discovered, it was thought of as an "unlimited" energy source in the days of horses. On the plus side fusion energy is carbon-clean, but its fuel is most certainly finite.
Sebb767 4y ago
> But why? How many web sites are you going to open at once? You in 2010 about 10 Mbit/s, probably. Okay, with less snark, having the capacity just opens up so much more opportunities. Imagine live streaming VR, hosting a video conferencing server, working with remote drives etc.. It really makes no sense to limit our data connections by current use cases, when current use cases are limited by our current data connections. Especially since there is no technical reason to do so.

nl 4y ago

Moore's law has never applied to network capacity.