What was it Gate's once said? "512k is enough for anyone" or words to that effect? If you look back even 5, 7 years ago, a gigabyte was massive, 3 1/2 inch floppies were still quite useful, and DVDs were either non-existant or about as popular as laserdiscs. Computers are an excellent case study of the human race expanding to fit its boundaries, toppling the walls, and them going further. No matter how much capacity there is, its never enough. Shortly, someone will fill that 10M/s line, and want more. (and AOL will find a way to fill it with ads and spam even faster.)
As for $150/mo, with the cable bill added onto (strictly monitored and capped) internet its almost that high already. 10mps would probably happily render portions of cable tv obsolete.
As for the pay-per-use concept, its probably only going to expand, as the rest of reality already works on that system (successfully or not, they use it none the less).
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What was it Gate's once said? "512k is enough for anyone" or words to that effect? If you look back even 5, 7 years ago, a gigabyte was massive, 3 1/2 inch floppies were still quite useful, and DVDs were either non-existant or about as popular as laserdiscs. Computers are an excellent case study of the human race expanding to fit its boundaries, toppling the walls, and them going further. No matter how much capacity there is, its never enough. Shortly, someone will fill that 10M/s line, and want more. (and AOL will find a way to fill it with ads and spam even faster.)
As for $150/mo, with the cable bill added onto (strictly monitored and capped) internet its almost that high already. 10mps would probably happily render portions of cable tv obsolete.
As for the pay-per-use concept, its probably only going to expand, as the rest of reality already works on that system (successfully or not, they use it none the less).
And... that's my rant for the day.
Gnomez