Bill Gates was once of the opinion that 640K of RAM would be enough for anybody.

Who knows what future applications might require the transmission of colossal amounts of data fast? The Large Hadron Collider can generate a Petabyte of data a second. Imagine setting up a distributed processing system like SETI to analyse raw data from LHC. A gigabyte per second wouldn't go very far at all.

Imagine medical monitors that you might wear about your person (or implanted - that's not just far away SciFi any more), tracking realtime vital statistics. They could generate a phenomenal amount of data to send back to base. Sub-LHC amounts, but still lots and lots.

Posted By: Arizona Bay on February 10th 2015 at 14:29:56

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So for those of us in dial-up deepest Norfolk (General Chat) - norway, Feb 10, 13:26:45
- its dull (n/m) (General Chat) - Charles21, Feb 10, 13:40:12
  - Don't believe you. (n/m) (General Chat) - norway, Feb 10, 13:43:08
    - You don't need to be reminded not to pay any attention to Charles Notoriously Wrong About (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Feb 10, 14:21:12
- Jeez, I thought dial-up went out 10 years ago (n/m) (General Chat) - CB41, Feb 10, 13:35:39
  - It did. (General Chat) - norway, Feb 10, 13:38:05
    - Is that like the 'Superbole'? (n/m) (General Chat) - avenging canary, Feb 10, 13:53:38
      - Wasn't that a Superb Owl? (n/m) (General Chat) - Old Man, Feb 10, 13:55:00
        
        Ah. My bad... (n/m) (General Chat) - avenging canary, Feb 10, 13:56:26
    - what download speeds you get with that? (n/m) (General Chat) - Pixelman, Feb 10, 13:40:22
      - Our *broadband* is usually around 1.5 to 2. (n/m) (General Chat) - norway, Feb 10, 13:43:44
        
        yeah that's what I get - pathetic...but (General Chat) - Pixelman, Feb 10, 13:47:25
        
        I'm now fibre enabled. (General Chat) - Johnny Comecardiff, Feb 10, 13:58:44
        
        BT reckon they're going to have fibre to the DP for nearly everyone in 10 years (General Chat) - yarmyyarmy, Feb 10, 14:01:23
        
        Not heard that, I have seen the DSLAMs they can fir onto DP's (General Chat) - strap_on sally, Feb 10, 14:08:51
        
        The PR puff is here (General Chat) - yarmyyarmy, Feb 10, 14:13:53
        
        The key word is "Most" (General Chat) - strap_on sally, Feb 10, 14:17:55
        
        Bill Gates was once of the opinion that 640K of RAM would be enough for anybody. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Feb 10, 14:29:56
        
        My mate is the procurement guy for all of that connectivity at CERN (General Chat) - Johnny Comecardiff, Feb 10, 16:28:15
        
        With greater speeds come different applications (General Chat) - yarmyyarmy, Feb 10, 14:26:05
        
        I have reached 137mbps on my 4G connection at home... at some point (I hope) we will (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Feb 10, 18:57:59
        
        ADSL, Broadband as we know it has only been around for about 15 years (General Chat) - strap_on sally, Feb 10, 14:30:35
        
        it can never be too fast... (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Feb 10, 14:23:51
        
        Whatever size links would be required back into the cloud? (General Chat) - strap_on sally, Feb 10, 14:28:18
        
        ^^^^^ This is correct ;) (n/m) (General Chat) - mike_the_sphinx, Feb 10, 14:38:18
        
        fit (n/m) (General Chat) - strap_on sally, Feb 10, 14:09:24
        
        move closer to an exchange (n/m) (General Chat) - Dave Bathroom, Feb 10, 13:47:03

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