I know I've extolled any number of potential downsides or reasons to be ambivalent about FiOS (fiber optic service) in the past. On the other I'd provide some benefiting reasons why to be excited about FiOS. Here are a few.
For the immediate future.
If you presently use Youtube, or any streaming video service. You may find, if you look up 4k ultra high definition video on a given search, videos of this sort presently available now. This is actually nice but compared to standard 1080p video is also more data intensive in terms of bandwidth use. In fact, so intensive, my computer runs sluggish on the streaming ends. Presently I imagine 4k is generally where technology may end in so far as video resolution unless one were talking about resolutions so intense that you could zoom in on a movie to watch subframe portions of a given film for the sort of futuristic Easter Egg hunt that a director might plant in a given film. Otherwise, 4k standard may represent the end of the road line where increased optical resolutions are so fine that a human eye really wouldn't be able to distinguish higher resolutions from 4k or above. If you want to take advantage of ultra high definition, outside of gaming application, or next generation players, you'd likely want to have something like Google Fiber service. Otherwise, provider service under older gen type internet services run sluggish, and even as you get 1080p resolution, compression is often applied to video renderings.
Secondly, while I've also mentioned any potential concerns about cloud storage, gigabit service may represent a shift in home computing in terms of the need of solid or kinetic storage needs at home. On a given day, for instance, when I move files around on my laptop , or home pc with sata based connections, I am still ranking at dinosaur transfer speeds compared to say a gigabit fiber service. Here at home while my hard drive moves at something like 30 mbps, there'd be no comparison between transferring data between my system and cloud account, basically the data bottleneck is now really occurring not with the internet provider but computing hardware. The future killer apps that are likely coming are the ones that not only rival stand alone software installed on one's system, but that exceed them and aren't necessarily stored on one's hardware. Although I am sure there will always be a necessity for a offline standalone being held on reserve. Generally speaking, if you were downloading with gigabit service and transferring data to your system, you are likely to be bottle necked on your system's storage. On the other hand if data is only needed in the pipe line of solid state storage , or RAM, this type of service it seems would do fine, or imagine saying good bye to the hard drive in terms of necessity. Except that I do have need for some stand alone programs that are not operated through internet interfacing, or cloud type programs that could take advantage of high speed cloud processing and data transfer, likely as more cities come online makes more lucrative the prospect that we could see internet versions of stand alone vendor software (graphics, video processing, gaming, and so forth).
Thirdly in terms of the types of service presently available, one could expect an increased use of higher end development in terms of application design and use. This means the types of products and services that one should expect are better. For instance, consider what the internet looked like 10 years ago...you think it were the same as today? Nope, not at all. Back then the statistical percentage of text versus visual media was disproportionately favored to text alone. This all changed as data bandwidth increased providing more visual media access. Thus if the same rule applied one should expect, as increasing deployment and availability were made for higher speed services, greater availability of products and services aimed towards what data bandwidth provides. Technology increases likely means major shifts potentially in how data is being used. So far when we use internet outside of video application, a lot of internet use, it seems to me works upon fixed visual media, or visual data processing applications that while providing user access to much higher levels of media content than had been previously available in a given decade past, still has limitations. Generally for instance, at present video compression and rendering systems for online video seems poorer in terms of imaging quality. Whether low level light processing leads to imaging that pits high exposure settings leaving horrible noise snow in video frames, traditional internet unfortunately with present technology and compression standards doesn't resolve this often much with median hardware that imagine many people use. On the other hand, with increased bandwidth, provides access for higher imaging quality, transmission, and broadcast. Technically this may be another step in changing the way we culture ourselves around communications in general. At least potentially we could be seeing the possibility of amateur photographers being able to snap and post photos that look less obviously amateurish in the future (myself included). Generally where I imagine digital futurism lay with increasing access to better technologies, without expecting to pay high dollar necessarily for hardware to use these sorts of technologies. I am not sure who does a whole lot of video chatting, but the biggest obstacle I've seen is transmission latency alongside video quality issues thus far. Increased bandwidth is one major solution to this problem, alongside furthered data processing, technically processing at the moment on bigger data service may be more often bottle necked on customer client sides, often making data processing less than a fruitful endeavor than it could be for the types of processing services that could be offered?!
Probably some of the bigger things or the types of interacting services, whether its visual processing systems that aid in providing search connections for finding the types of desired things that one might be wanting to look for. Whether you scan your house, and a A.I. processing system, aids you in interior design mock ups on the fly, or providing images of something for product suggestions, or as I could think of what if there were something missing in one's life that a A.I system might provide suggestion to you in having. Meaning, I didn't know what I was missing until I knew what I was missing, as in the electronic companion providing a friendly hint about something. Sure, maybe you figure you might not be missing out, but when cabin fever stricken at times, it helps having a personal coordinator without having to pay one. The reality is that increasing bandwidth access likely will open up different avenues here potentially in terms of how you use the internet and the level of interactivity that is permitted in doing so. Sure maybe you hand't liked annoying side bar ads that picked up too much on your conversation, but on the other hand, you might like an occasional shopping helper in finding things that you were looking for, and anyways future algorithms were much more intelligently designed to read when you might be really annoyed by the ads and conveniently disappear as necessary whenever desired.
I know I've stated that as humans we can only process so much information as once, and this likely puts a limit in terms of media interactivity...for instance, I won't be able to watch gigabytes of movies in seconds, but on the other hand, I will be able to watch even higher quality video, or shoot higher quality video that looks more and more cinematic everyday as technology advances, getting rid of things like camera shake problems (this exists today but some algorithms leave funny effects behind) with even more intelligent design algorithms that are provided even on entry level gear in the future (that actually work and isn't just another firmware added gimmick). I may find things like idea applications, that help me research and brain storm ideas, free writing aids, researchers that allow me to more smartly accomplish the sorts of home and work task ideas that I had in mind. Self constructed mind maps today, artificially intelligent instructors in the future, but not only this personal tutors. Personal coaches, lifestyle coaches, relationship advisers, counselors, networked CNC mills for mmorpg role playing figurine clash of clans, and so forth. Think of being able to program with verbal pseudo code, like say I need a class that does this, and voila in any programming language you could think of your idea application is developed in seconds, but then you remind yourself, society can't get too lazy, after all this sort of Wellsian view of possibilities means that we could be turning ourselves into the lotus eaters...all for Fiber, but I still recommend it! Generally where higher bandwidth comes in handy is really with big data and big data processing, or if there something of an increased impetus to put powerful computing tools in the hands of anybody and everybody...not necessarily for climate forecasting needs, although, maybe someone somewhere could use it (forecasting for future land use surveys), maybe the kid's school project to send the little toy drone to Mars, the next grade school engineering project to provide dirt cheap inexpensive, efficient, and green refrigeration systems, or as you might not have guessed, more modestly the kid graduated from an online college level calculus course using accelerated learning systems. Not that one should imagine huge bandwidth always being necessary, but then I suppose the level of interactivity and engagement is another matter. Anyways, more bang for the buck, and that's what the price really amounts to, or I am not ashamed on this one saying, even for a fuss or two, super size me on this one.
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