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Horse · 04-28-2008, 10:42 AM

The DataGrid Project

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The Grid: The Next-Gen Internet?

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At speeds about 10,000 times faster than a typical broadband connection, “the grid” will be able to send the entire Rolling Stones back catalogue from Britain to Japan in less than two seconds.
FOXNews.com - 'The Grid' Could Soon Make the Internet Obsolete - Science News | Science & Technology | Technology News

That'd make all PCs a dumb terminal with data stored on some server since you'd not have access to hardware able to parse data that rapidly. The end of many forms of piracy.

This alone will offload industrial uses of the internet which AT&T have little or nothing to do with.

04-28-2008, 10:42 AM	#32 (permalink)
Horse Registered User Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 1,333 -28 Internets	The DataGrid Project prehype The Grid: The Next-Gen Internet? hype get At speeds about 10,000 times faster than a typical broadband connection, “the grid” will be able to send the entire Rolling Stones back catalogue from Britain to Japan in less than two seconds. FOXNews.com - 'The Grid' Could Soon Make the Internet Obsolete - Science News \| Science & Technology \| Technology News That'd make all PCs a dumb terminal with data stored on some server since you'd not have access to hardware able to parse data that rapidly. The end of many forms of piracy. This alone will offload industrial uses of the internet which AT&T have little or nothing to do with.