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The killer app to justify the high speeds...

The killer app to justify the high speeds emerging in U.S. gigabit communities may come in the form of “high-performance knowledge exchange,” Gig.U Executive Director Blair Levin said at the U.S. Ignite meeting in Chicago Tuesday, according to his speech’s…

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prepared text. He talked of the transformative power of big data and put that in historical context, with references ranging from the Big Bang to the Library of Alexandria, from the printing press to the Industrial Revolution. “The horizon point to which we should set our compass is high-performance knowledge exchange,” he said. “That is, we don’t just do data dumps. We exchange that knowledge which is meaningful and actionable. And through efficient feedback loops, test the actions to continually improve performance.” Bandwidth has failed to keep up with our knowledge exchange, constraining innovation opportunities, he added, pointing to areas such as genetic sequencing and the “bottleneck” of slow bandwidth.