“What the Wheel did for transport,
Optical Fibre has done for Communications”
Efficient transport has been key to opening up our World.
Transport of both Material and Information requires Energy, and the Speed is vital.
The Wheel:
- Reduced the energy required to transport (reduced friction)
- Increased the speed of transport (friction increase with speed is less than for boats)
Optical fibre:
- Low Energy Loss (Very high transparency)
- High Speed (Vast information rate in Bits/Second)