As nice as this sounds, you have to remember that there is two sides to every connection. Upstream and downstream. At the standard high speed of 5 mbps here in my area (excluding the 15mpbs fios) a webpage will load almost instantaneously. At higher speeds, it will not increase the load time because it has nothing to do with recieving the website but how fast your computer and the browser can put the packages back together in the correct order which means a faster connection is not necessary. Downloading large files is where a faster connection could be useful but just because you have an extremely fast connection does not mean the provider of the file you are downloading has a fast enough connection to upload the files to you. Upstream always is much slower than downstream which is why even though we have 5 mbpsm, we can only download at around 300 kbps.

i think the systems we will be using will be completely different. With search:Microsoft's Surface being revealed, ect... (you definitely have to check that out), it'll most likely be compared to typewriters to computers... Not specifically Surface, but some technology will take over and replace home computers. I believe there will be another great jump... Like carborated to fuel injection, or rotatory phones to cordless. Home computers as we know them will change.


And obviously if you were the only one, or only few, the technology would only serve as maximum speed you would be able to download from. But you would also be able to have hundreds of incoming connections without your speed altering (if you were only one). For example you could be download 15 movies from various {legal} sources and loading web pages with out noticing a glitch. And there are lots of 100mbit sites to download from, so you would be able to download a movie at 10MB/s(10,000kb/s).

but in reality, it would be more useful if everyone had this type of connection. Tera byte harddrives would also become more popular seeing as filling your HDD would be easy. Images probably wouldn't be compressed seeing as it would be useless to save space over quality with both speeds/space upgraded. Alot would change in technology and how it is developed (on the software front).

This post has been edited by 9block: Jul 19 2007, 07:41 PM

Thinking about what alex7h3pr0gr4m3r said, if we were to go back to the computers we had 5 years ago, and the technology we had with the internet, we would probably hear about lots of computers blowing up. It's already amazing how much computers have evolved but if soon the standard is to download at 160GB/s then we will have to have some really big hard drives. The thing is though, that files are also being able to get smaller and smaller as well as we can compact them more and more so that with the technology we do have today, it won't take as long to download them. So now as we progress into the future, files will still be getting smaller, connections will still be getting faster, and hard drives will still be getting bigger. Of course, we'll soon be able to also have more capabilities with the computer. We already can watch TV on them and host our own radio station, there is bound to be more that we'll have access to. But would it really be worth it to have something that fast? Of course if it's soon the standard you may think so, then dial up will cost pennies a month.

hmmm man tell us how can i download movie in one second??
u r making us amazon

ummm... what?


Its all great that the transfer speed is great but i'm preeeettttyyy surrreee my hard drive cant write that fast *dances*

I don't see that public for at least another 10 years at least... That was done for supercomputers.

BTW, I remember that some sciencetists managed to tansfer data at a rate of 1TB/s , or was that something else?

Amazing article. I always wanted to get better and better internet and this can be great way to make money for that organization and speed up our internet's.I think i will be for a while when this will be a normal internet speed..But 160gb/s is not acceptable for HDD ..they can only 20mb/s (most of them) That fast internet and downloading wouldn't be simple.They must just create better HDDs

Wow that is fast .. I wish i had it ... pages would load right when u click them ... it would be awesome

Amazing, I guess everything is going to end up in the internet and computers will end up being terminals.. That would make computers really inexpensive, and I guess you could rent the processor speed, disk space... etc everything you need. What would also rule would be that you could rent High definition movies with a click, and without leaving your house.