John Carmack always has an interesting point to make about latency: https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/193480622533120001

>I can send an IP packet to Europe faster than I can send a pixel to the screen. How f’d up is that?

and to relate to the other post about landlines: https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/992778768417722368

>I made a long internal post yesterday about audio latency, and it included “Many people reading this are too young to remember analog local phone calls, and how the lag from cell phones changed conversations.”