[kefka]

I don't think so. It's not hard to see the beginnings of a satellite communication platforms around the Moon and Mars. And once we start looking at the local solar system, we start dealing with C being a significant source of lag.

For example, communications to and from Mars can take upwards to 20 minutes, depending on where the Earth is in relation to Mars. If this doesn't call for eventual consistency, I'm not sure what would.

The more humans grow, C is a thing we'll have to take in consideration for our communications mediums. Planet-wise comms still feel instant, but that's still on our ball of rock.

[dragonwriter]

> I don't think so. It's not hard to see the beginnings of a satellite communication platforms around the Moon and Mars.

That's not even remotely close to interstellar.

> And once we start looking at the local solar system, we start dealing with C being a significant source of lag

Sure, interplanetary has substantial impact from light-speed delays.

I'm just saying that pointing to imminent interstellar scope is wildly improbable.

[resu_nimda]

You mean interplanetary. It will be a while until Google has nodes orbiting Alpha Centauri.