Ask HN: What innovations have come as a result of high bandwidth?
What innovations have changed the world as a result of high bandwidth through e.g. fibre optics?
Distributed scientific computing, in which complex problems that require high bandwidth, but that are solved by a worldwide distribution of machines, like seti@home, folding@home and others, benefit from high speed/bandwidth.
YouTube and similar sites, sites that resemble social forums but that use video, all require high speed access.
The list goes on and on. The modern Internet wouldn't remotely have its present form without high speed/bandwidth.
Bit pie in the sky I know - but a bit of a dream!