Nice irony there. You get frustrated ... because you're right to see things in shades of gray and they're wrong to see things in black and white? Nice binary thinking mr analog!

While I applaud Standford (sic) for their efforts at increasing the bandwidth on a technical side, one has to ask if they have the sociologist-equivalent of bearded terminal hackers working on the impact of such discoveries. We have seen that as the Internet has grown since 1996 from modems and isbn lines on up to cable modems and DSL, netizens aren't exactly using their bandwidth for the most altruistic purposes. This has created social problems such as the rampant piracy on the internet. Also companies that invested large sums of money in compression schemes and other workarounds for low bandwidth situations have and will continue to suffer in the face of increasing bandwidth (ask anyone at Citrix). Hopefully businesses and individuals can learn to adapt and use new technology responsibly.

Here's to more colloboration between technologists and sociologists.