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PATRICK PICHETTE: Data speed is like oxygen, right?
Oxygen you take for granted until it disappears, and then
it becomes everything, right?
Data is the same thing, right?
Everything running fine is fine.
And then when you don't have data, when you
buffer, you go, what?
Sucky.
I don't know if you can see sucky on camera, but anyways,
like very sucky.
JOE REARDON: Lack of bandwidth, the idea that
there's not enough access today, I think, is evidenced
in all kinds of places.
ROBB HEINEMAN: I have all kinds of personal experiences
where the internet and the speed of the internet's been
incredibly frustrating.
CINDY LANE: The average high schooler has texted 1,200
times from the time they get out of bed to when they hit
school at 7:30 in the morning.
And so their world is fast, fast, fast, but when they get
to the school, we slow way down.
SERGEY BRIN: Processor speed, power consumption, networking
that we deploy within a datacenter.
It has gotten just incredibly faster, by an order of
magnitude, every few years.
MILO MEDIN: The communications network is the thing that's
falling behind in the speed of innovation.
What we're trying to do with this effort is to take people
from the megabit web to the gigabit web.
PATRICK PICHETTE: Today, everybody's used to three,
four, five, six, 10, 20 megabits, right?
So a gigabit is like a thousand times bigger.
MILO MEDIN: One of our goals is to actually deliver that
kind of connectivity to ordinary people.
SERGEY BRIN: That's why we're rolling out communities,
starting with Kansas City, that are going to give one
gigabit of access to every home.
BO FISHBACK: It is going to probably be the most buzzed
event in the history of Kansas City on the day it's announced
and that is pretty awesome.
That's pretty amazing.
KEVIN LO: In Kansas City, Kansas, we were absolutely
blown away by the leadership.
The Mayor, the city staff, the utility as well.
BRENT MILES: Next step infrastructure.
ROBB HEINEMAN: Nerd out the stadium.
DR. ROY JENSEN: Immediacy.
And you weren't constantly reminded that your physician
really is hundreds of miles away.
CINDY LANE: Parent conferences don't have to be just in the
schoolhouse door.
CINDY CASH: I don't know if Google Fiber has actually
gotten to the point where you can send smells over fiber,
but I think it's something y'all should start thinking
about because that would certainly sell more barbecue.
JOE REARDON: When we make a commitment to that new idea or
initiative, we don't know where it may lead, but we know
potential's there for it to go to great places.
BO FISHBACK: I think what it is, is like a huge bet on
human creativity.
You just know something special is going
to come out of it.
PATRICK PICHETTE: Think of education.
Think of entertainment.
Think of e-commerce.
Think of attracting developers.
And not only that, but it just drives the economy around you.
So for Kansas City, it's fantastic.
SERGEY BRIN: It is a privilege for us to deploy this high
speed network, together with the hard working people of
Kansas City.