Comments on: Genomic data transfer at nearly 10 gigabits per second between US and China

By: Gabor

Gabor — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 19:08:36 +0000

Of course we will outgrow “our human nature of fear, war, hate” and it will be like a tsunami, first hardly noticeable, then it’s like a force that would be laughably impossible to resist – but again, you already knew that…Will we still call ourselves humans?! I don’t know, but personally I don’t think of myself as a Neanderthal now, do you? The only difference is that thanks to technological evolution (genetic engineering) the next step will be bigger than the one we took since the Neanderthals and could happen in our own or the next generation…

By: Bri

Bri — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 17:41:08 +0000

Stealing stuff of the Internet seems to be a way of life. Tail to almost any American teen. This is to foster better relations. The more we become one the more it doesn’t pay to go to war . Look at the top Russian leaders war mongering comment recently. Their stock market got a hair cut. Very disruptive to business ties. Right now I’d keep my eye on china. They are about to get a hair cut. Their new high tech cities off the future are flopping bad. No one can afford to live in them! We are tied together with them, soon they’ll need to play by the rules. It’s a world economy, everybody has to!!!

By: snake

snake — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 11:29:13 +0000

Cool, now they can steal our information at light speed!

By: Trey Beathard

Trey Beathard — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 23:44:42 +0000

With all due respect Gator, until China allows uncensored internet access to all of its people, then the West and China are not “on the same team”.

By: Ed

Ed — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 20:17:44 +0000

10Gb/sec just does not seem like a big number anymore. Nice to have but not a geewiz.

By: GatorALLin

GatorALLin — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 15:27:35 +0000

It would be an interesting world if everyone would see all humans on the same side. I know when I was growing up all the movies had USA against the Russians… then when the cold war was over we needed a new enemy and so the fear of the unknown for China seemed to take over…. then capitalism took hold even in China and suddenly half the stuff in our homes were made in China and we even have the Olympics there. What if our new big enemy was hunger, or disease and not each other for the first time? Yeah, I know the movies may get boring if suddenly we don’t have an official enemy to put our fears into (did you hear about the next Red Dawn2 movie? they switched from China to North Korea for example to come up with a better foe). Here we are sharing data with China at an ever faster rate for example. Yeah we got some stuff done when we had to race to get the atom bomb developed first, yeah we got the space race going ahead of the Russians, but what if we worked together vs. our little bubbles? Even though we increase our intelligence, can we outgrow or upgrade our human nature of fear, war, hate? Lets hope we can for all the right reasons…. I sure hope the sparkle of new technology and the promise of improved lifestyles (for every person, not just in the USA) brings everyone up and gets everyone on the same team.