That comment was made from a customer perspective (myself) while I wonder if I ever would wanna pay for it, although it seems like it's pretty cheap already. As an entrepreneur, business, etc... then yes, I agree. Shoot for the stars and land on the moon. :)
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 3:02 PM, Karl Auer <ka...@biplane.com.au> wrote: > On Fri, 2015-06-26 at 13:39 -0500, Rafael Possamai wrote: > > How does one fully utilize a gigabit link for home use? For a single > person > > it is overkill. > > This sentiment keeps popping up. It's a failure of vision. To suggest > that "single people" or "ordinary people" or any other set of presumably > average and uninteresting people will never be able to fully utilise the > amazing properties of X, and that they can and should be satisfied with > some limited version of X or the even more limited alternative Y, is to > completely miss the point. And to actually provide no more than that is > to build a self-fulfilling prophecy. > > Look at pretty much any modern technology and you can be sure that when > it was first invented someone wearing the then equivalent of a brown > cardigan said "yes, that's all very well, but what use will ordinary > people ever have for it?". > > When the first little fire sputtered into life in some Neanderthal cave > you can bet that some troglodyte said "no point make bigger, me warm > enough, more hot waste of effort", but of course he hadn't thought of > bronze, iron, steel, glass, welding or rocketry. Or the steam engine or > the internal combustion engine. What luck that his kids ignored him, eh? > > As William Gibson wrote, "the street finds its uses for things". > > I can't think of anything I would or could do with a terabit Internet > link - but it's not me who needs it. It's the kids now in school who > will build it, and their kids will think it commonplace. And they will > look back at you and me and think "how did our grandparents ever manage > with only a couple of gigabits? How limiting!" And while they are > thinking that, some bright young things will report that they think > they've got a primitive exabit link working... > > Regards, K. > > PS: There are only three real values for network speeds, just as there > are only three values for amount of personal fortune, RAM, disk space > and CPU speed. The three values are "not enough", "enough" and "I don't > know". Always aspire to "I don't know". > > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) > http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer > http://twitter.com/kauer389 > > GPG fingerprint: 3C41 82BE A9E7 99A1 B931 5AE7 7638 0147 2C3C 2AC4 > Old fingerprint: EC67 61E2 C2F6 EB55 884B E129 072B 0AF0 72AA 9882 > > >
