Bandwidth

Tokyo scientists achieved 9.8 Gbps at the last Internet2 Consortium, over a distance of 20,000 miles. That's fast enough to download an entire high-definition movie in a few seconds, or perhaps more importantly to consumers, enough to simultaneously stream high-definition movies to an entire neighborhood. This underlines the woefully poor bandwidth in the United States. We don't even have broadband across the country, and conventional broadband is barely enough to stream low-quality video. This is basic infrastructure, people. This, more than national defense and road systems, is the future. The government should finance the modernization of our communications infrastructure.