Everyday ISPs/Content Providers are constricting the pipes more and more.
All the physical equipment and meatspace savings from this will vanish[shift rather] and the network costs will take their place.
Will they add new infrastructure and absorb that cost without price increases?
Netflix's issues with ISPs is actually a counter example to my position?
As time goes on, we'll use less data rather than more?
Video[GUIs are video] require a lot of transfers even when you have good connections/protocols. I do remote work[a lot] and I have a typical uplink and it stinks. I use CLI/SSHFS as much as possible to avoid lags and it is still laborious.