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The Internet Soon Obsolete?

ReynaldoReynaldo 6,054 Posts
edited April 2008 in Strut Central
From The Sunday TimesApril 6, 2008Coming soon: superfast internetJonathan 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...http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article3689881.ece

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  • yuichiyuichi Urban sprawl 11,331 Posts
    Maybe good for business (depending on who you ask), but what does it do for personal consumption?
  • GambleGamble 844 Posts
    So it would be exactly like the internet, only much faster? Think of how that could benefit society, mankind as a whole. Implications are amazing. *


















    *Super Hi Rez Porn and Rickrolling, here we come.
  • RockadelicRockadelic Out Digging 13,993 Posts
    This means I'll be able to post up my fake finds before I even make believe I find them.

    JLR will be thrilled.
  • onetetonetet 1,754 Posts
    fascinating article.
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