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title: "Good new, everyone! "The fastest internet speed in the world has been…"
date: 2020-08-23
source: facebook
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# Good new, everyone! "The fastest internet speed in the world has been…

*August 23, 2020 · Facebook*

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Good new, everyone!\
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\"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.\
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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.\
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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.\"\
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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:\
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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.\
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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.\
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Have an orgy with supermodel sexbots/waldos, with realistic visuals, touch, smell, and sound.\
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Store backups of your \"brains\" in real-time in multiple safe locations around the solar system.\
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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.\
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But, on the whole, such increases in bandwidth will enable amazing things.
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