For the last 22 years, David Neilson has studied light. As Group Leader for Optical Transmission at Nokia Bell Labs, he’s seen the development of fiber optics transform communications and the internet. This unimaginable growth in speed and connectivity has given rise to the cloud, which today shapes our lives dramatically. But the cloud is just getting started. Thanks to innovation in optical transmission, the cloud will achieve – or even surpass – science fiction’s most elaborate scenarios.