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"Speed- why do we need it?"

Speed. Whether you are speeding down the Motorway, or running around a track- we crave it. The same can be said about Internet connection speed. Will there ever be a time when we get comments like, "This connection is so slow, it almost took a nanosecond to download a movie." Scary, yet the time will come.

Something about the need gets us excited, well, unless you have motion sickness, in which case you will hate it, but it's normally down to adrenaline. It pumps through our blood at the mere mention of Speed, and we crave it. I always get butterfly's in my stomach when I am going on a fast rollercoaster, not because I'm scared, and it's not because I have motion sickness, but because I know that when the wind passes through my hair as I am nipping along a track, I will enjoy it more than anything. This brings back to the Internet. If speed wasn't needed, then why do we get faster connections, faster modems, and the introduction of Broadband? We need speed. If speed never existed, how would we get things done in time? Would life as we know it change? Well, Internet time would anyway. How long does it take for the average SR page to load on a 56K modem? Roughly 3-4 seconds. And what about broadband? Almost instantly. So you see, speed allows us to view things much quicker, and by the time around 10 pages have loaded, the Broadband connection is already 30 to 40 seconds ahead.

Speed can also be applied to computer games. It can be mentioned in the sense of how long the game takes to develop, how quickly it runs, how long you take to finish it and how long it sits on your shelf after you have completed it. Speed is a necessity of a developer. Without speed, how can a game developer make the game in time for the release date they promised? They can't always, which is why games are pushed back until they are ready. If speed came in a bottle, would we drink it all the time? I know I would, as it would allow me to get home from school earlier, gaining me precious minutes on my console or on the Internet.

Looking at today's world, we see people rushing around trying to get jobs done, or trying to get something downloaded of off the Internet, and for some reason, people believe that if they were faster, they won't have to rush around. Wrong. All it means is that if people are faster, they want to get more jobs done, which will still make them rush around. Again, this can be applied to the Internet. As I said earlier, we crave Internet speed, well, I do anyway, but if we were granted a faster connection that Broadband, it would allow us to download files quicker, but we would be tempted to try and download more files per second, which will again make the connection slower. There is no way around this problem, well, there is, but not many people realize it. In a world that moves faster than we do, we never stop for a minute and see the world at a slower rate, because we don't have time. If we were to slow down, or not download so many things per hour, maybe we would get a little faster. So, the key to going faster is to slow down. Possibly, but how fast can we go? How fast can we travel before we get tired, or how fast can connections get before we can get no faster. Only time can tell…

The only problem with speed is the faster you go the more you get used to that speed. This is fine in the safe world of Internet surfing but when you look at driving it gets bad. The first time you start driving and hit 30 mph you can feel the adrenaline pumping, the same happens the first time you hit 50 and 70. It just seems so fast. But then you pass you test, go down some long empty road and start maxing out your car. Thats a great buzz but then the next day you go to work doing 70 and think, bah this is useless. In the end you just wanna go faster nad faster, the question is, is there a limit at which you will always get a buzz at a certain speed? Could that limit be 500 mph, a few thousand, a few million or what about the speed of light?

Wºmd€r wrote:
> Speed makes us want to have more in other words go faster so in a way
> it is like a drug you always want more
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I thought Speed was a drug...

Good post Microchips. If it weren't for speed, Sonic would not have done well at all.

Wºmd€r wrote:
> Speed makes us want to have more in other words go faster so in a way
> it is like a drug you always want more

That's pretty much what I said in my post, if you took the trouble to read it.

:)

Microchips wrote:
> Cool- sounds like fun Indian Dude. :)

ahhh , it is my young micro... it is :)

Speed makes us want to have more in other words go faster so in a way it is like a drug you always want more

fair nuff

Thanks Kerrang. Do you have a view on Speed? (not the drug type)

:D

Not an epic post like your usuals but very well done Microchips.

heh- I knew my theory would hold water, i knew it...

:D

PoSh KiD wrote:
> *groans in envy*

lol, Microchips Speed craving theory is true then.

Even i'm craving a faster connection now!

Except we cannot afford it, The one we got now is £14.99 a month..