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Originally Posted by dmaul1114
I still wouldn't put it under never. Some european countries already provide free internet--as do some cities in the US. So the free part can happen.
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Doubtful you're going to see zero cost and high quality at the same time though. And "free" is probably misleading in those cases. I'd bet taxes are paying for it.
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Almost never being down simply requires having a complex system of back ups in place.
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It's more difficult than it sounds, and it's expensive. Somebody is going to have to pay for it. Companies aren't going to put in high availability, high speed infrastructure and then give it away.
The electric utility industry is over 100 years old now. I'm still waiting for free electricity without power outages.
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So to some regard there's a limit on how big media files can get.
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Don't bet on it. I'm sure after 3D becomes the norm they'll come up with some other wiz-bang feature to drive new sales. I'm sure at one point people thought that B&W silent movies were the height of technology and couldn't imagine anything better. Remember the infamous "640K is plenty of memory" quote from MS?
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Too huge areas where the human race is doing a pathetic job at innovation is speed of data communications and the global infrastructure for it. And battery technology (or alternate power sources for portable devices).
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Is it that we're pathetic at innovation, or that every time we innovate the target moves farther away?