A lot of people here are extrapolating from current tech, not realising that “quantity has a quality all of its own.” For one, ubiquitous terabit Internet woul

A lot of people here are extrapolating from current tech, not realising that “quantity has a quality all of its own.” For one, ubiquitous terabit Internet would completely eliminate the need for local compute and storage in most form factors. About 60 Gbps is enough for 8K uncompressed video! You wouldn’t need a GPU or a PC to put it in. Just run everything in the cloud and access it like a virtual desktop. This is already commonplace in large enterprise. One issue with such virtual desktops is latency. Their disks are expensive to move around to follow users so the virtual PC doesn’t move and mobile users have to access them from far away. With terabit Internet a 1TB operating system disk could be moved to a nearby point of presence in about ten seconds. Alternatively the OS could start booting instantly from the remote disk and stream the rest in the background later. In other words, computing would be more like in Star Trek: there would just be this “ambient” compute you can interface with anywhere without thinking about data or device locality.