[fennecfoxy]

>but outside of pro gaming and HFT But that only allows for current technologies/consumer habits and not the future.

Gaming explodes into online VR where latency is incredibly noticeable, I still think virtual shopping will become a thing, everyone buys crap online now but it's nice to be able to "see" a product before you buy it.

As we start getting autonomous vehicles/delivery drones etc they can all make use of the lowest latency link possible.

Lower latency also usually means (but not always) lower power usage aka the "race to sleep".

It would also enable better co-ordination between swarms of x, whether it's aforementioned delivery drones, missile defence systems (which launch site is better to launch from, stationary or mobile) etc.

But also just human ingenuity and invention, we should always try to make it faster just because we can, at the end of the day.

[sainez]

I'm sure plenty of money will go towards trying, but I hope that virtual shopping does not become a thing. Especially with respect to clothing, there is simply too much information that can not be communicated visually. This includes the texture of the fabric, its density, degree of stretch, how the item fits on your body, how it looks it different lighting, etc. Online shopping also makes it easy to scam people, where some cheap, mass produced thing is misrepresented as a higher quality item.

[fennecfoxy]

Oh, no I definitely will still always buy clothing IRL. The biggest part being that no single company has an agreed way to do sizing, even simple things like shoe companies, as it can say be a UK-X size, but the interior shape can still change.

But for much else idm at all, people buy tonnes of stuff off Amazon based on 2d pics already.