This is such a superficial and terrible article, its like if you gave an intern an outline and they could only use wikipedia to complete it.

While I appreciate what they're trying to do, this comes off as ridiculous to those of us who actually have built or build parts of the internet.

The TLDR of this article is "With current technology you can move more bits with light and electrons than you can with RF", which is likely to stay true for the forseeable future.

What they left out is that most fiber service providers use PON, which doesn't give you the top end of what your physical fiber can do.

Here's a handy article about it: https://www.electronicdesign.com/what-s-difference-between/w...