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> every person would have more bandwidth than they knew what to do with.

I think that is exactly the point. That's why they are doing this; Google doesn't know what exactly will happen when everyone in the USA/world has fiber connections, but they do know that incredible innovation will come. What kind of applications will be built? What kind of applications can be built?

Couple this with the increasing computing power inside each home over the next many years, and Google will have control over an unbelievably fast and large network of computers.

I'd be certain most applications are in the weak-to-strong AI arena.



indeed. The scales of computing technologies have increased by many order of magnitude in their history, and it has never been "enough." Bill Gates infamously demonstrated the danger of predicting how much RAM/Clock speed/Bandwidth/etc. is "enough."

EDIT: fixed a rather wacky typo


* Bill Gates infamously demonstra...*

Let me stop you right there.

http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/1997/01/1484


That's the first I've heard that Gates didn't say the 640k quote. Thank you for the correction.


If you build it, they will come.


Interesting double entendre considering what kind of video a lot of people stream....


Can you give examples you have in mind of AI applications that requires high bandwidth? Something related to vision maybe?


I fear, the surplus bandwidth will be simply wasted, just like the enormous computing power of modern desktop CPUs.


But if you have fiber connecting all of these modern desktop CPUs, people could sell excess computing time to applications that need it.


I think you just clearly stated a problem and a solution in the same comment.




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