| The environment is a big concern on many | | | | Another great example of something that the |
| people's lists. While the predictions of various fossil | | | | Earth has been ravaged in order to provide is high |
| fuels running out and various environmental | | | | speed internet. The cables for this service are |
| processes reversing sometime in the years | | | | more often than not laid underground, meaning |
| 2000-2100 seemed an awful long way off during | | | | hundreds of thousands and even millions of miles |
| the 80s and 90s, today it seems the apocalyptic | | | | of earth has been dug up and these cables placed |
| nature of the future is right at our doorsteps. | | | | inside. While today the environmental impact |
| With talk of global warming and the end of things | | | | amounts to the usual disturbance of ecosystems |
| like gasoline, many have begun to fear that within | | | | and landscapes around the world, the fact of the |
| our lifetimes a 'Mad Max' type of scenario will | | | | matter is that the planet is moving more towards |
| begin to play itself out on a global scale. While | | | | wireless internet features every day. In the |
| recycling of plastics has gotten big, like plastic | | | | future, internet sources like satellite internet |
| bags and soda bottles, other kinds of recycling | | | | broadband with its non-invasive infrastructure will |
| and proper disposals that may be far more | | | | take over, and all of these cables will likely remain |
| important simply haven't reached the mainstream | | | | underground. |
| media's conscience. | | | | While they will likely lie dormant for a long time, |
| For example, the vast majority of people do not | | | | what will happen when the inevitably start to |
| dispose of their cellular phones, laptops, digital | | | | erode? Part of the problem of taking off with |
| cameras, and other electronics correctly. Many | | | | new technologies like high speed internet far too |
| people also continue to throw old batteries away, | | | | quickly is that the actions taken can be very |
| even though the chemicals from all of these items | | | | short sighted. In 200 years the results of laying all |
| are known to leak into soil and groundwater, | | | | these cables could be destructive for hundreds of |
| causing permanent damage and poisoning the | | | | years to come, all to provide the world with high |
| Earth. While many people have switched to hybrid | | | | speed internet ten years before wireless |
| cars, at least those who can afford it, far fewer | | | | technologies like satellite internet came around. |
| people have taken the initiative to purposefully | | | | As most people today will agree, the less invasive |
| use public transportation, or even ride a bike to | | | | a new technology or service the better. To start |
| school or work in the mornings. It can be hard to | | | | doing the right thing and working for a greener |
| give up those creature comforts that have | | | | tomorrow today, look into alternatives like satellite |
| always been around, like a toilet bowl full of | | | | internet broadband that will help stop the |
| water, but sometimes it's easier to adjust to a | | | | terrestrial broadband web before it grows out of |
| brick's worth of water displaced in the tank than | | | | control! |
| most people have thought. | | | | |