Episode 171; Mattias Fridström: Shannon’s Limit, The Middle Mile, and Telecom Security

This week, we discuss the challenges of building a modern economy with AI, cloud computing, and machine learning. Our guest, Mattias Fridstrom, a telecom evangelist, explains that we're facing an emerging bottleneck with our networks. The US has a vanishing inventory of fiber, and adding fiber between cities and states is difficult, expensive, and time-consuming. Join us for this cool and unsettling conversation.