[tim333]

The original Columbia presentation is actually pretty cool ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7274288 ) I thought I'd mention it as it only got a couple of votes and sarky comments at the time but having just watched it all I think it really look like a major breakthrough, maybe the biggest one of the year and could be giving us 4k video all over the place before long. One of the interesting things is it will work with existing unlicensed spectrum, existing handsets and the backhaul can be done with line of site links on rooftops so it can be rolled out pretty much straight off - well they are talking a year or so.

[DonGateley]

Once you begin exploring the implications and the possible applications to things other than communications it begins to look like possibly the biggest breakthrough in history.

Only one in energy could surpass it.