[alexmchale]

This is high in the running for the dumbest article I've ever seen on HN. Send that U-Verse internet connection back to 1983 and you'd get the same response - "this speed is cool, but it doesn't really let me do anything NEW". We need technology that serves for the things we might do in the future, not merely for the things we want to do today. Because we never know what technology from today we'll be stuck with deep into the future.

[nickpinkston]

Glad yours is the current top comment.

There are for real reasons already - I work in manufacturing and collaboration is really annoying with gigabyte-sized files going back and forth - not to mention the browser CAD / simulation tools that could be made if the pipes were far bigger.

Friends with a 3D scanning company are FedExing crates of 2TB drives across the US to get around this - it's actually cheaper...

[HardlyYakka]

I think you (and to be fair, a lot of others too) might have skipped most of the article; what you've said basically agrees with the latter half of it- from "The inability to anticipate the utility of Google Fibre is understandable" onwards.