The Time Is Now: Bust Up the Box! - New York Times

The Time Is Now: Bust Up the Box! - New York Times: "For decades increases in the speeds of computer networks trailed the exponentially accelerating speed of microprocessor chips. Now the balance between the power of computer processing and networking has fundamentally reversed, and the rapid rise of transmission speeds is beginning to have a revolutionary impact on how computers are used and what they can do.
'That box of things that used to be contained inside of your PC now gets spread out literally on a global basis,' said Mike Volpi, a senior vice president at Cisco Systems, the largest networking company in the world. The changes are taking place both at the highest end of the supercomputing world and just as swiftly in the consumer World Wide Web."