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Latency and the Sea
Our global internet has roughly the same reaction time as a blue whale. When we start to think the Web as an animal, does that change our mindset into what’s possible?
Week #466-467-468
A triple weeknote. Mostly surveys prepping for the coming months and top secret projects which should come to light soon!
Intrastellar Communications
As we explore our solar system, the biggest determent to communication speed won’t be the bandwidth, but the latency. As bandwidth gets larger and larger, we’ll quickly become aware of the real bottleneck in the network. There is an upper bound limit to the response time, the speed of light, which cannot be broken. There are ways to get around this, but they are hacks at best and can certainly be improved.