Slate’s Farhad Manjoo visited Kansas City in January to explore Google Fiber‘s capabilities and came away resigned, not knowing how to take advantage of the gigabit speeds. He toured the Google Fiber Space and talked with two entrepreneurs in Homes for Hackers—Synthia Payne and Nick Budidharma—along with checking out SightDeck‘s operations, but discovered no current use taps into the offering’s true potential. Hacking the Gigabit City, an event put together by Mozilla and others, seeks to find some answers this weekend. — Source: Slate

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