And maybe sooner than we think.
Just about the time the entire world is starting to get access, the internet could possibly be made obsolete by a new “grid” system which is 10,000 times faster than broadband connections.
The Telegraph reported this morning on the new network designed by scientists in Switzerland.
Without an equivalent TCP/IP system for the grid and absent Al Gore, I doubt we have to worry about replacing all our machinery any time TOO soon. Then again… never know with this crazy technology. Sounds a bit too much like the Matrix for my blood at the moment, but I’m sure after the first time I download a movie in a half second I’ll sing a different tune.
2 responses so far ↓
1 Angeline // Apr 8, 2008 at 3:06 pm
Cool. Sounds like it could reduce energy use too…provided people didn’t spend even more time on “the grid” downloading thousands of movies etc. since they could do it faster.
2 Jake Brewer // Apr 10, 2008 at 10:42 am
I definitely think it could. There’s not enough information to understand how the devices that support our usage of “the grid” would be different from our current devices - and consequently hard to determine what energy usage would look like…. but I think you’re right: definitely possible!
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