If you’re like me (and who wouldn’t want to be), you get annoyed when you’re blasting your way through Call of Duty: Black Ops multiplayer, and it suddenly lags, hardcore. “Connection interrupted”? “Host migration”?? You motherfuckers!! We didn’t pay honest American dollars for service like this.
Well, our friends have Google have a plan to keep things more, err…regular.
Today in a press conference they announced Google Fiber, a service that will offer 1-gigabyte fiber optic internet connection. It will initially be offered just as a free service to schools in the Kansas City, KS area in 2012, but I can see this going wider pretty quickly.
I’ve been underwhelmed by recent Google projects (Google Buzz, anyone? Google Voice??). And I have hesitations about the name Google Fiber- it makes it sound like Google is trying to give Metamucil a run for its money in the natural laxative category. But this project sounds like a winner. With this announcement, I can see cloud-based gaming scoring a big victory, and physical media crawling an inch closer to its inevitable doom.
Anyway, I’m excited. Maybe a little too excited. Time to go get some bran flakes.
To learn more, watch Google’s press announcement here:
http://www.youtube.com/google#p/a/u/0/1o7bKLG3A3w
3 Comments
Good it will bring the ISPs the want to cap a little competition.
Finally, the US starts to catch up to the rest of the developed world. Internet access in other comparable countries is both faster and cheaper.
I’m living in Kansas City
Kansas City, here I am
I’m living in Kansas City
Kansas City, here I am
They got a crazy Google fiber there
And I’m gonna get me some