Personally, I'm all for it because of Moore's Law. Particularly because we seem to be approaching a plateau (he says hesitantly) in hardware growth that may invalidate it for hardware, but we've only just started the exponential spurt in network, connectivity and bandwidth increases that proves it for networking.
Imagine the ability to connect to anyone in the country from anywhere at 100Mb/s. Imagine the apps and cloud stuff that currently is infeasible but won't be then. We are already at the conjunction of the browser being the app and this bandwidth speed will help that. Imagine apps that we just can't imagine right now because we're constrained to 1.5Mb/s thinking.
I think this will be the equivalent to communications that was the hugely expensive push of rail networks from the US East coast across to the West coast proved to be. Hugely expensive at the time, and cheap in comparison to the benefits in hindsight.
Imagine the ability to connect to anyone in the country from anywhere at 100Mb/s. Imagine the apps and cloud stuff that currently is infeasible but won't be then. We are already at the conjunction of the browser being the app and this bandwidth speed will help that. Imagine apps that we just can't imagine right now because we're constrained to 1.5Mb/s thinking.
I think this will be the equivalent to communications that was the hugely expensive push of rail networks from the US East coast across to the West coast proved to be. Hugely expensive at the time, and cheap in comparison to the benefits in hindsight.