The speed of human thought is dwarfed by the flood of information that assaults our senses. — The New York Times
In our digital age, few things are more irritating than a slow Internet connection. Your web browser starts to lag. On video calls, the faces of your friends turn to frozen masks. When the flow of information dries up, it can feel as if we are cut off from the world.
Engineers measure this flow in bits per second. Streaming a high-definition video takes about 25 million bps. The download rate in a typical American home is about 262 million bps.
