Fat Pipe Dream

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An old friend just sent me this note: “I live on the country-side of the northern part of the Netherlands. In this area, within 3 years, there will be places with an Internet connection of 26 terabytes per second. That is, I believe, 300.000 times [the speed of] ASDL. I have a lot of contacts with the project leader of Lofar, and am curious to find good, and very good ideas about what to do with an Internet connection of that speed. I believe it will be the fastest in the world.” What would you do with that kind of bandwidth?