"Fibre optic is becoming like electricity. If you look at how electricity spread around the globe 100 years ago, that's what's happening now."

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In going on with these Experiments, how many pretty systems do we build, which we soon find ourselves oblig'd to destroy! If there is no other Use discover'd of Electricity, this, however, is something considerable, that it may help to make a vain Man humble.

— Benjamin Franklin