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My tinfoil senses project a not so distant future, where most computing happens in the cloud, and consumers only having a low-powered terminal to the essential mainframe. I know from Genetec customer stories, organizations (including public authorities) love using fiber-optics for surveillance systems (to be able to scale said systems, and/or reduce the compression-ratio of the feeds), and similarly the increased bandwidth provided by 5G (convenient for live-streaming the increasing numbers of cameras inside busses for example; but also other modern vehicles like cars, which increasingly share sensory data to update a map in real time: used as the primary means of navigating autonomous vehicles, instead of solely relying on machine vision.