NO MORE INTERNETZ?

[tad10]

Originally Posted by Salshun

I have a dream.

THIS is what the Internet should have been:

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I was a fan of Nelson's Computer Lib/Dream Machines when I was kid that being said every interview I've ever read about him makes me think he is a raving lunatic (though not in a bad way). Anyway, why would you or anyone expect the Internet to be anything other than a reflection of the culture that produced it?

Or in South Park terms: if 25% of the planet is retarded why shouldn't 25% of the Internet be the same?

[Horse]

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.

[The Ancient]

Unfortunately, no one can be told what "the grid" is.

[FulorianC]

The Grid - everyone talks about it so reverentially, but it's just basically a new internet backbone with only two users on it. Big whoop. Put 500,000,000 users on it and lets see it send the Rolling Stones discography across the world any faster than BitTorrent.

[James]

Is that even physically possible? Well I guess it is. How fast is the speed of light?

[Eomer]

300,000km/sec

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Originally Posted by Salshun

I have a bridge over some swampland if you want to buy it.

But..who gives a shit? Every time I read a 4 chan post, see someone's myspace page full of embedded music and flashing gif's, some ignorant pro-racism website, a website with sexually abused children, or an aol chatroom with 10 year olds going "Where do I download a program to hax0r teh someone's AIM account?!" I find myself struggling to care.

Remember when this started and it was supposed to be this beautiful interconnected hub of global knowledge and friendship that was above things like race, religion, and creed? Myspace kiddies took that from us, polluted and destroyed it. I would like nothing more than to watch it be torn down from the ground up. I want the internet to be nothing more than a beautiful encyclopedia of human knowledge beyond compare. The internet should be wikipedia, that's it, but expanded to extreme levels. The most anyone would be allowed to contribute "an opinion" would be there feelings about a topic, and each review could be deleted by an approved moderator if it was determined to go beyond the scope of the issue.

I have a dream.

THIS is what the Internet should have been:

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