For the last ten years, as the volume of content sloshing through fiber around the world is exploded, Denton led a revolution in savage drive-by snark that, though pretty much standard fare in countries like the U.K., induced rubbernecking whiplash for American readers.
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This advance in the realm of medicine comes, oddly enough, from the digital world of fiber optics and laser printers, courtesy of engineers and scientists at Xerox Corp.
So unless we want to stop technological progress, pinch off our fiber pipes to the world and to each other, and freeze capital, I think the only long-term remedy is education.
The orderliness of lasers is what makes them useful for things like storing and relaying information--that's why they can transmit voice and data signals around the world through fiber optic cables.
Some 18, 000 miles of cable and 30, 000 phone lines snake through its New York headquarters, linked to offices around the world by a fiber network that can zap data at 6.1 gigabits per second.
The Google Fiber project barely needs a mention- its already the dream of tech enthusiasts nationwide to have internet that is up to par with the rest of the world, and Fiber delivers that at a better price than the significantly lacking services of providers such as Comcast .
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The growing demands of the U.S. military for the bandwidth necessary to transfer in a secure fashion immense quantities of video and other data in real-time to commanders and forces all over the world transform this fiber optic infrastructure being sold by Tyco into something else altogether - a force-multiplier of immeasurable value.
Dozens of companies are laying fiber-optic cable around the world, leading some to talk of a looming bandwidth glut.
Lastly, the week saw the unveiling of the world's first fiber-optic solar cell, which is thinner than the width of a human hair and could pave the way to creating energy-producing clothes.
He battled for the right to race with the fastest men in the world on a pair of carbon-fiber prostheses.
Limitless fiber-optic capacity will slash transmission costs over the world's networks.
As John Pletz recently laid out in Crains, Chicago already has more installed fiber optic cables than nearly any metro area in the world.
In this email interview, we discuss how that hobby became a career, how she learned the tools of the video trade from the very audience she was broadcasting to and why old fashioned fiber arts are making a comeback in this high-tech world.
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The app economy is centered in the U.S. in no small part because a decade ago we unleashed fiber optic and mobile network investment, and America surged to become a world broadband leader.
Running with special carbon fiber prosthetic limbs, Pistorius was initially prevented from competing against able bodied athletes by world governing body, the IAAF.
But what about outlying parts of the country -- and, for that matter, the rest of the world -- that don't have easy access to this speedy fiber?
With its 95% share of the world market for gallium arsenide semiconductors, Japan makes the brains for high-speed fiber-optic telecommunication switches as well as the chips that steer Tomahawk missiles.
He didn't begin running competitively until about four years ago, and now he uses carbon fiber prosthetics that are shaped like the letter J, and on them he has set Paralympic world records in the 100, 200 and 400 meters.
The world's tenth-largest contract electronics manufacturer has seen increased orders for printers and fiber-optics products.
Thus far the star of this new science has been ethanol, a car fuel made from corn, but around the world chemical, grain and biotech companies are working to produce auto paint, cosmetics, even apparel fiber from renewable resources.
They are the fingers and eyes and noses of the computer, bringing the world (be it a car crash, pressure in a fuel line, or light in a fiber-optic network) into the boxed, insular space that sits quietly on desktops.
Instead of lagging the world in this critical area, we would quickly lead it, just as we did with microchips, fiber optics and--until recently--the Internet.
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