Terabit-class data pipes - hundreds of movies in an 'instant'

Caught an article from the UK about researchers in Japan figuring out how to move data over the web thousands of times faster than is possible right now. This would give you and I the ability to download hundreds of movies almost instantly (providing we had the big pipe to our home as well). Just think of what you can do with this kind of network speed and ability to move data so quickly over the internet. One day I'll look at my 3 MBPS data broadband connection as I now look at my old 56k modem.