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IMO, Local will always be faster than Remote
Yes.
The known Laws of Physics (and the Law of Corporate Greed).
Regardless of the technology, Local will always be faster than Remote.
Even in Star Trek, Local is faster than Remote.
Exactly.
How much do you think the Corporations will be charging for 1 TB/s bandwidth?
I say 10 years (Moore's Law).
Maybe one day we will have instantaneous inter-galactic teleportation, that doesn't mean "diddly-squat" now.
Windows 8 is here now.
Tablets are here now.
The "Cloud" is here now.
Even if I had a 1Gb/s Internet connection it would still take ~9 hours to download 4 TB.