• surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Decades ago…

    “Why do I need electricity? I have candles. Lights seem excessive.”

    Yes, but once most people have electricity, new products will be designed to take advantage of it. Now you can have a washing machine, for example.

    Broadband is the same. Once most of your population has high bandwidth, we can start to design things that will use it. Right now we’re still designing for DSL speeds.

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        China morally bankrupt and developing at a staggering pace which has somewhat stymied as their scoffing at regulations in favor of backroom dealings is kneecapping themselves.

        So if you zoom in close enough, like looking at this amazingly fast reported internet speed and only at this speed, China “good.”

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        5 days ago

        China is a totalitarian regime with more human right, continuing atrocities, corruption, and illegal trade/business practices.

        They are also

        • bringing a billion people out of poverty and up to modern standards of living in record pace
        • building out renewable energy faster than the rest of the world combined
        • have like 95% of the worlds EV buses
        • are adopting EVs at record pace
        • built out the worlds largest high speed rail at record pace
        • publish the most scientific paper of any country
        • are a hotbed of innovation, manufacturing development
        • are quickly building an outstanding space program from almost nothing

        Those accomplishments and many more can be celebrated with losing sight of the basic horribleness of their government

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      6 days ago

      So I’m just going to be a completely different person once I have access to these speeds or you are suggesting new tech that will be made available to consumers?

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        The second one.

        Think back to when you were on dial-up. The concept of a streaming movie service would have been a fantasyland. No one was creating one. The infrastructure wasn’t there. It was impossible.

        As soon as people started getting broadband, and enough people got it, streaming services could exist.

        Are you different? No, you just want to watch a movie. But now you don’t have to go to Blockbuster.