Google on Thursday lit up its highly-anticipated fiber network in Kansas City, promising to bring residents of the city world-class Internet and television service with projected maximum theoretical speeds of 1Gbps. Google vice president of access services Milo Medin made the announcement in Kansas City and said that the fiber network was necessary to help American consumers and businesses keep with with the acceleration of both computing power and storage needs. “Even though the Internet was invented here, other countries have sped ahed and their citizens enjoy much faster speeds,” he said. Read the full story at Boy Genius Report.