Guys! No one is saying that your home will be equiped with a 1Tbps internet connection in 3 years.... This sort of bandwidth would be what the ISP can provide to various areas, or perhaps certain research colleges would be able to get such massive bandwidth. But with modern PCs this sort of speed wouldn't even mean anything. RAM can write at what? 17GBps is the fastest number I've seen and that is much more expensive, high performance, and uncommon than what most people's pcs use. So an individual user today with a $5000 or more pc could theoretically use up to 143Gbps for streaming media, but definately not 1Tbps. Even a fast SSD writes at around 500-600MBps, so for downloading files even 5Gbps is hugely overkill for almost any home user. And that is for those using very fast SSDs which can cost $500-$600 by themselves, which is more than most users want to pay for an entire system. So practically, it will be years and years before computing technology could benefit from 1Tbps, but if all storage was in the cloud somehow and could be transfered to your computer at insane rates, you may be able to use 100Gbps connection, meaning a large bluray movie would buffer in 3 seconds assuming you had at least 40GB of RAM installed.... Give it 10 years and who knows, but 3? Not even practical for an individual. Thus entire areas will be sharing such bandwidth for now.
