Its a fascinating picture. I'd love to see one of the Bay Area, one of the cable technicians installing yet another fiber down the road outside our office joked that if you put big rockets at PAIX and MAE-WEST and launched, they would lift 'silicon valley' [1] into space on a net of fiber optic cables.
Of course no mention of "Beauty and the Beast" [2] which took place in a pretty fanciful world under New York city.
Given the expense these days of tunneling I wonder if we've reached a peak of complexity underground for now.
[1] Actually only the parts between San Jose and Palo Alto but it was the imagery not the accuracy they were going for.
Of course no mention of "Beauty and the Beast" [2] which took place in a pretty fanciful world under New York city.
Given the expense these days of tunneling I wonder if we've reached a peak of complexity underground for now.
[1] Actually only the parts between San Jose and Palo Alto but it was the imagery not the accuracy they were going for.
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauty_and_the_Beast_%281987_T...