Once unlimited fiber internet comes to somebody’s neighborhood, it seems like we’d need a new use case to make sneakernet / pigeonverse worth it for consumer use. People download 100+GB games every day without a second thought.
Maybe there are some cases where it would be nice to carry a ton of data physically with you, but you can already fit a lot of data in a small portable hard drive.
Certain scientific applications require really large amounts of raw data, collected from sensors and the like. Radio telescopes, for example, require each sensor to send petabytes of data to a central place to be analyzed. For example, the Event Horizon telescope has sensors all over the world, and hard drives of the recorded data get sent to be analyzed in the United States and Germany.
For residential applications, though, yeah. There currently isn’t much of a use case for sneakernet where you can get terabytes of data with latency above a few days.
Once unlimited fiber internet comes to somebody’s neighborhood, it seems like we’d need a new use case to make sneakernet / pigeonverse worth it for consumer use. People download 100+GB games every day without a second thought.
Maybe there are some cases where it would be nice to carry a ton of data physically with you, but you can already fit a lot of data in a small portable hard drive.
Certain scientific applications require really large amounts of raw data, collected from sensors and the like. Radio telescopes, for example, require each sensor to send petabytes of data to a central place to be analyzed. For example, the Event Horizon telescope has sensors all over the world, and hard drives of the recorded data get sent to be analyzed in the United States and Germany.
For residential applications, though, yeah. There currently isn’t much of a use case for sneakernet where you can get terabytes of data with latency above a few days.