Holy Snikes!
April 5th, 2008 by xformed
Parallel universes? Nope. Parallel Internet. Tinker Bell move
Cloud Tugboat Mickey divx Computing will drive it:
From The Sunday Times
April 6, 2008
Coming soon: superfast internet
Jonathan Leake, Science EditorTHE internet could soon be made obsolete. The scientists who pioneered it have now built a lightning-fast replacement capable of downloading entire feature films within seconds.
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.The latest spin-off from Cern, the particle physics centre that created the web, the grid could also provide the kind of power needed to transmit holographic images; allow instant online gaming with hundreds of thousands of players; and offer high-definition video telephony for the price of a local call.
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I wanna be a beta tester…
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April 6th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
Fear not – the cable companies will find a way to drag it back to subsonic speed and charge and arm and leg in the process…
-SJS