If Bandwidth + CPU = 0

James Seng poses this intriguing equation: What if Bandwidth & Computer-processing power approaches Zero (i.e. limitless).

I left a comment in his post, which I've touched up here (what follows are not necessarily related nor in sequence) :

• Internet replaces TV & radio
• Rise of a new Art-form
• It would be common for individuals to create and use (online) 3D-rendered Avatars
• Advent of Transactions-by-Proxies (where your online Personalities, complete with your psych-profile, carry out shopping and other transactional decisions on your behalf while you sleep or work)
• Rise of the Bandwidth-Wars
• Countries are judged not by their size but by the bandwidth they command
• Power failure causes economic collapse
• Increased bandwidth gives rise to Info-overkill (beyond overload)
• Shift from reliance of online to offline (e.g. books)
• Librarians get paid obscene amounts of money to be consults on how to deal with Info-overkill
• Librarian charged in court -- guilty of massive data-dump in desperate bid to ensure continued employment

Too much Sci-Fi in my reading diet, I think.

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