Assorted facts:
- I post to Facebook and my wife’s phone beeps less than a second later.
- I send an email to Australia and it arrives 2.7 seconds later.
- I ask google for all the pages out of trillions that include the phrase “articulated portal sprocket” and it answers in 200 milliseconds.
- I speak into the camera on my phone and someone in Georgia sees me talking real time.
- I transfer money from my E*Trade brokerage account to my checking account and it takes three business days.