Upton Sinclair: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it”

You still need to traverse physical segments in the wireless path: think receiving dish to the next transmitting dish, the end of the path to get from the trading systems onto the roof and into to the first dish, etc. Every nanosecond counts.

> I'm sure some HFT traders are going to make an absolute fortune, but I doubt it'll have a huge impact for most other people.

They’ve been using hollow core fiber (and funding research into it) for nearly a decade. I know it goes back further than the 2017 spinoff mentioned in the article, but https://optics.org/news/11/9/52 talks about it a bit.