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I'm in Kansas City Missouri the home of the Kansas City Chiefs delicious barbecue and the beginning of Google Fiber Google's promise of internet speeds a hundred times what the rest of the country gets let's check out to see if it's really the case teach me on Google Fiber as a concept what is it and why do I want it sure so the average American internet connection today is 6.7 megabits per second so with Google Fiber we're offering 1,000 megabits per second and we think that not only will this let people do everything they do today faster and easier online but it also has implications for the future the web you know will let people develop the new applications that will make the web better and faster going forward and this is important faster broadband is good for everything from mapping to streaming video to video conferencing hi I'm C I'm definitely seeing some blurriness when you know when you move a lot but you're super smooth and clear exactly it is right this has huge implications for emerging fields like telemedicine if you can video conference without latency and share huge files at the same time you could have virtual meetings with doctors who could send you x-rays while you talk or any student could take any class anywhere and then of course there's things like smart energy grids connected devices and all the things we haven't even thought up Google Fiber and gigabit ethernet is great for consumers but it's also transforming Kansas City from a business perspective and at the center of that is the Kansas City startup village which is a series of three houses like this one behind me where all kinds of entrepreneurs are gathering and creating a real community let's check it out do you really see the next big company coming out of Kansas City I mean are we gonna get a Google size company coming out of here I think that's completely possible yes the biggest benefit is probably we get a glimpse in the future for what everyone's going to have right so if we get to gear technology towards what people are going to have is an advantage just a little time in the Google Fiber space made me a believer I'm wandering up and down Sunset Boulevard on Street View in Google Maps this is basically my neighborhood in LA and this is something I would never do at home on my PC because it takes so long to load all the images and you look at something else that's a high image content on the web something like the Google Art Project now pointillism is something that you can only really appreciate when you can zoom up close and really see the detail of the brushstrokes I'm sold on this so my visit was almost over but I had to know when can I get it unfortunately no matter how many times I asked Google wouldn't say do you guys have plans to expand beyond Kansas City or even in the city so when can I have this in Los Angeles I want to know how it's gonna happen when give me a date I mean is there a timetable for trying to get this into other cities or I mean is there and is this something that I can cross my fingers for do I have to is it gonna be my kids that are having this or am I gonna be able to get it in you know in the next few years I mean from Google like I said we've got a lot of work to do here we don't have anything to announce I mean I think we would be interested in talking to other communities in the future perhaps bottom line if you want Google Fiber you're gonna have to move to Kansas City to get it I want it