Wired, nomadic, and wireless bandwidths grow exponentially and converge.
Edholm's three curves converged around 2010, which is when mobile became the default access mode rather than a constrained alternative.
In practice
- A field office that could not run a video call in 2004 runs its entire operation over a mobile connection in 2016 with no change to its budget.
- A household that once had one connected computer now has a dozen connected devices on a connection the household never upgraded deliberately.
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- Technology & Software
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- The curves, the limits and the laws of software