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We don't really know.That is the idea, they have to discover it. Is not a qualitative change, but is a really important quantitative change. New applications t

• bri3d 14y ago
  Living in what environment? Immersing oneself in the Google Fiber content experience (i.e. Google Fiber TV) isn't seeing the future; it's living in Google's research lab and still following the puck Google has already shot. As for the network speed, plenty of colleges and research institutions have hundreds-of-megabits and higher Internet connections straight to the terminal, not to mention datacenters, Korea, and Scandinavia: I'm pretty sure we know what's possible over a gigabit network and have been able to imagine the "what if everyone had this at home" scenario for a long time. To your analogy, it's like Microsoft using a supercomputer to imagine a future when consumers own powerful computers, except the supercomputer is a $50 gigabit Ethernet switch that's been available at your local Best Buy for years. I don't dispute that this is a productive idea for entrepreneurs, that revitalizing the KC tech scene is a great idea, or that Brad Feld's hacker-house offering is really neat, but I still can't see how moving to an environment that's already existed in other niche areas and is very trivially simulated is going to create revolutionary ideas.