subject: Satellite Internet Broadband Speeds As a Modern Necessity [print this page] For example, a dishwasher is not a need but a luxury, as is a riding lawn mower or a microwave. These things make our day to day lives easier so that we spend less time on the boring stuff and more time focusing on what's important. However, there are some things which over the years have gone from being luxuries to being needs because they are so socially ingrained it becomes impossible to function without them.
An excellent example is an automobile. In the past these were luxury items that only the wealthy could afford, but the majority of people travelled by horse or foot making it unreasonable to ask the average worker to travel the distances a car could to commute. Today, if you live in an area without public transportation, or at least not a very good transportation system, in order to get to your job, to the grocery store, or simply to get around you need some kind of vehicle. Another example is the telephone. In the past it was more acceptable to send messages slowly by letter or in emergencies by telegraph, but today a person without a cell phone or at least a house phone is thought of as 'unreachable.'
With the pace at which plans change and businesses are run these days, a person without a cell phone gets left in the dust. A final, and perfect example of a technology that has gone from luxury to necessary in the blink of an eye is that of the internet.Whereas in the past dialup internet was a luxury, today it's a burden to be borne by those living off the DSL and cable terrestrial broadband maps. The slow speeds make it painful if not impossible to access many web pages, to stream music, movies and videos, to download the large files that terrestrial broadband users access in seconds, and generally to function online.
Satellite Internet Broadband Speeds As a Modern Necessity
