While in a break from a meeting at the University of the Western Cape, I purchased a ticket from Boston to Long Beach, California on JetBlue (picking up new helicopter on September 7 and flying it back to Boston). Due to the lack of Internet bandwidth out of the university, what would have been a 3-minute task in the U.S. stretched out to longer than 30 minutes. Frustrated, I noted to the faculty there that “If South Africans are expected to drop dead from AIDS at age 45, they at least should be able to enjoy high-speed Internet until they die. The connection speed here is something you couldn’t be satisfied with unless you were planning to live more than 300 years.”