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Facebook exists in its current form because of broadband. Along with Instagram, etc. Running Facebook of even circa 2008 without broadband is painful. In a way
by 27182818284 13y ago
Facebook exists in its current form because of broadband. Along with Instagram, etc. Running Facebook of even circa 2008 without broadband is painful. In a way broadband adoption let websites like Facebook and many others come into existence.
With 1 Gbps, I think it will be similar. We'll see websites with components that wouldn't be possible without it, but those components themselves (uploading photos of your drunk college friends) were possible to some degree beforehand.
I don't think it will be a radical transformation where suddenly doctors preform robot surgery as envisioned with things like Internet2, but I could see, say, more Skype meetings with your doctor as the video quality and sound quality increase.
- GFischer 13y agoI suspect we'll see omnipresent, always-on video cameras everywhere. Forget Street View, we'll have Street Camera, maybe always-on connection to Google Glasses? (I think there were several sci-fi books on the subject). There are already many obsessed bosses connecting to work even on their holidays, maybe now they'll own a telepresence robot. I'm sure there'll be a lot of good uses :) but the current mindset makes me think of these possibilities first.