I think it's just manifestation of huge diversity among us. Once I started to appreciate the idea that we're not the same inside, I can see some very fascinating differences in the way we operate, think, see the world, etc.
Our brains are only superficially similar - isn't it as simple as that?
I wonder if it will help us communicating with possible extra terrestrial intelligence. If there is some kind of SETI in other world then I guess it would be easier for them to detect nukes explosions than 1936 olympics.
Maybe we'll end up using nukes as kind-of-morse code communication? ;>
I was thinking about "broadband" a while ago, and I think it's about time to add minimum/average latency to "broadband" definition. It's huge pain to handle hundreds of milliseconds of latency in real-time applications (like games) - sometimes even impossible for some applications like OnLive, unless you implement some really sophisticated algorithms ie. MS DeLorean.
Assuming that web is slowly moving from static content to real-time experience, we should start educate consumers that bandwidth is only part of the story. In 10 years we'll have plenty of bandwidth, but without consumers demanding low latency now, we'll still have to waste money on high latency hiding - or worse - adapt application designs to it.
Our brains are only superficially similar - isn't it as simple as that?
EDIT: fixed (hopefully) grammar mistakes.