Re: Call Me A Crumugeon
As I've posted before many times, show me the potential use case. Even for technology that doesn't exist today (providing you don't go crazy and talk technology that may never exist like Star Trek holodecks)
The reason why we kept needing faster and faster broadband speeds is because our media became more complex and used more bandwidth. We went from text only, to pictures, to audio files, to video to HD and soon 4K video. That's the more complex and information rich media we can provide to our senses. Why are we going to want faster and faster connections when we've reached the pinnacle for maximum information density we can input to our senses?
Even if we do some sort of a 3D VR like Oculus/Hololens type of thing that's still basically streaming a couple 4K images at us at a slightly higher frame rate (and most likely you won't stream live images to it but rather have it build the images itself like a video game does, you'd only be streaming it if this became a popular way to get a skier's eye view of slalom races or something)
We've maxed out the bandwidth our senses can really use, so there are no more order of magnitude increases in our needs. A single person or family won't be able to usefully consume even a gigabit, and there's certainly no market for ever going higher. Yeah, if it helps make better collective use of resources its useful to upgrade in that sense, but no one is going to say "man my 300 Mbps connection is holding me back, I wish gigabit were available where I live!"