well you also have paired particles that allow instant communication over theoreticay any distance. They've been working with them for a while now and doing stuff like that will allow for what is called 'quantum computing' in the popular press.

Of course we still use wiring and not light in PC's right now so we have a long way to go.

Well data may become free for you guys in the USA, but down under I doubt it very much, too much of a monopoly by the partialy government owned telco.