Give me bandwidth or give me death!

Link: Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Illuminating cities: Cisco's grand ambition. Cisco wants to "light up" entire cities with IP technology, fascinating stuff! I would like to reside in one of these cities, where bandwidth is presumably plentiful.

Every time time I wait on a download, watching the progress bar, I am reminded of the fact that we spend too much of our CPU brain cycles waiting for things to happen on these machines, when we could spend it consuming and creating.