How about hard work by some people with visions of a faster better future? Oh wait I know that new freaking robo-dog was on the ship and Sony used their secret military to break into area 51 (the one no one knows about but everyone knows about) steal the robo dog plans and relese it to the waiting public!
Your explaination gives us so much Im sure those dem der' aliens had VCR's CD players, Coffie makers, cable modems, electirc staplers etc.
You know the old saying put a infinate number of monkies in a room with keybords and they will write all the plays of shakespear? Perhaps it should be put acouple hundred smart humans in a room with the quest to make things faster one will come up with fibre optics.
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