Good new, everyone!
"The fastest internet speed in the world has been clocked at an incredible 178 terabits per second (Tb/s) – fast enough to download the entire Netflix library in under a second. Engineers in the UK and Japan have developed new ways to modulate light before it’s beamed down optical fibers, allowing for much wider bandwidths than usual.
That new top speed is an insane feat. It’s 17,800 times faster than the current fastest internet connections available to consumers – 10 Gb/s in parts of places like Japan, the US and New Zealand. Even NASA can’t compete, with its 400 Gb/s ESnet.
It also leaves other experimental devices in the dust, including a photonic chip developed in Australia that clocked a still-impressive 44 Tb/s just a few months ago, and beats the previous record holder – a Japanese team with 150 Tb/s – by almost 20 percent."
EDIT: Several people seem skeptical that there will be a use for all of this bandwidth. I think all of the bandwidth will be easily used. To wit:
Realistic VR / AR. Imagine being able to walk up to and "touch" any building, anywhere in the world. Picnic atop the sphinx. Bound across the cloud forest in Madagascar.
Simulation? Imagine being able to record the state of the world at any point in time, and then being able to "rewind" to a moment in history. It wouldn't be time travel, but it would _feel_ like time travel.
Have an orgy with supermodel sexbots/waldos, with realistic visuals, touch, smell, and sound.
Store backups of your "brains" in real-time in multiple safe locations around the solar system.
Will there be dangers? Annoyances? No doubt. The equivalent of spammers, thieves, and Baby Shark will be enabled as well. World modeling will also mean world surveillance.
But, on the whole, such increases in bandwidth will enable amazing things.
"The fastest internet speed in the world has been clocked at an incredible 178 terabits per second (Tb/s) – fast enough to download the entire Netflix library in under a second. Engineers in the UK and Japan have developed new ways to modulate light before it’s beamed down optical fibers, allowing for much wider bandwidths than usual.
That new top speed is an insane feat. It’s 17,800 times faster than the current fastest internet connections available to consumers – 10 Gb/s in parts of places like Japan, the US and New Zealand. Even NASA can’t compete, with its 400 Gb/s ESnet.
It also leaves other experimental devices in the dust, including a photonic chip developed in Australia that clocked a still-impressive 44 Tb/s just a few months ago, and beats the previous record holder – a Japanese team with 150 Tb/s – by almost 20 percent."
EDIT: Several people seem skeptical that there will be a use for all of this bandwidth. I think all of the bandwidth will be easily used. To wit:
Realistic VR / AR. Imagine being able to walk up to and "touch" any building, anywhere in the world. Picnic atop the sphinx. Bound across the cloud forest in Madagascar.
Simulation? Imagine being able to record the state of the world at any point in time, and then being able to "rewind" to a moment in history. It wouldn't be time travel, but it would _feel_ like time travel.
Have an orgy with supermodel sexbots/waldos, with realistic visuals, touch, smell, and sound.
Store backups of your "brains" in real-time in multiple safe locations around the solar system.
Will there be dangers? Annoyances? No doubt. The equivalent of spammers, thieves, and Baby Shark will be enabled as well. World modeling will also mean world surveillance.
But, on the whole, such increases in bandwidth will enable amazing things.