>> "watching khanacademy youtube videos"
You don't need crazy fast internet to watch YouTube videos. I've been watching theme fine since I was on 1 mobs broadband. And do you really think that if we suddenly have super fast connections people will spend time watching educational content instead of porn and cat videos?
>> "Cable companies don't seem to care about anybody but themselves"
They care about their shareholders and maximising profits. They are running a telecoms business not trying to improve humanity!
My point of comparsion was between dailup and DSL, and how DSL enables khanacademy videos. With faster internet, it will alow things beyond khanacademy videos.
And do you really think that if we suddenly have super fast connections people will spend time watching educational content instead of porn and cat videos?
A faster internet allow more things that can be done to improve humanity as well allow humanity to watch better porn and cat videos.
They care about their shareholders and maximising profits. They are running a telecoms business not trying to improve humanity!
If you the rest of the comment. I was noting how short-sighted the cable corporations are. If anything, they are like paperclip AI that wishes only to make paperclips. Cable corporations are like that, except it's all about printing money.
That is, the difference between slowly browsing the textual internet forever on dailup and watching khanacademy youtube videos with a crappy DSL connection. Imagine that everyone are on gigabit connections? What would that entails in term of increased well-being and economic propserity to humanity?
Cable companies don't seem to care about anybody but themsleves. Not the future of humanity, not the employees, not the concept of enlightened self-interest, not even the rich. They only care about MONEY.