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The Grid to Render the Web Obsolete?

Techtree News Staff, Apr 07, 2008 1913 hrs IST

They claim "the grid" is so fast it is capable of sending the entire Rolling Stones back catalogue from Britain to Japan in less than two seconds.

The birthplace of the Web, Cern, which is based near Geneva, is now busy working on "the grid" that boasts speeds nearly 10,000 times faster than a typical Broadband connection, and that may soon render the Web obsolete.

The grid computing project was started around seven years ago by researchers at Cern. They claim "the grid" is so fast it is capable of sending the entire Rolling Stones back catalogue from Britain to Japan in less than two seconds.

With that kind of computing power, future generations will be able to collaborate and communicate in ways that older people cannot even imagine, said Professor of Physics at Glasgow University and leading light of the project.

Scientists at Cern intend to activate "the grid" this summer alongside what they term as 'red button day' when they will switch on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) or the new particle accelerator built to probe the origin of the Universe.

So what is "the grid"? Professor Tony Doyle, technical director of "the grid" project, said they need so much processing power that there would even be an issue as to getting enough electricity to run the computers -- if they were all at Cern. Doyle said the only answer was a new network powerful enough to send the data instantly to research centers in other countries.

Doyle explained that that network, in effect a parallel Internet, is now built, using fibre optic cables that run from Cern to 11 centres in the United States, Canada, the Far East, Europe, and around the world. From each center, further connections radiate out to a host of other research institutions that use existing high-speed academic networks. Which means Britain alone has 8,000 servers on the grid system so that any student or academic will theoretically be able to hook up to the grid rather than the Internet from this autumn.

What does the grid have that Internet doesn't? While the Internet has been built by linking together a mesh of cables and routing equipment most of which lacks the capacity for high-speed data transmission, the grid, by contrast has been built with dedicated fibre optic cables and modern routing centres, ensuring there are no outdated components that manage to slow down the speed of data transmission.

Commenting on the possibilities of the grid, Ian Bird, project leader, said grid technology could make the Internet so fast that people would stop using desktop computers to store information and entrust it all to the internet. Bird said it would lead to what is known as 'cloud computing', where people keep all their information online and access it from anywhere.

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(120) Comments

azmi

,india, on Mar 14, 2009 10:40 PM

when grid internet comes,what are the requirements for this,about cost/month,how the data access in grid internet pls give this ans quickly

tech

,atlanta, on Feb 02, 2009 05:12 PM

Check this out...interesting

Anranya Yadav

,Bangalore, on Apr 10, 2008 10:58 PM

grid is the hottest area for research and a very powerfull too. Students from universities Like Thapar University Patiala(India) are having dedicated research lab in Grid Computing. In thapar University talented students and experienced professors like Dr. Seema Bawa, Dr. Maninder singh have achieved a lot and future, sure they will contribute.

Lukman T K

,Calicut, Kerala, on Oct 21, 2008 02:52 PM

did u provide more information about this topic (The Grid to Render the Web Obsolete?) and helpful links.

Ashish

,Chandrapur, on Sep 20, 2008 12:45 PM

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akhil

,kochin, on May 19, 2008 12:26 PM

how is it's procedure to get grid plece e mail me

Afzal Khan

,Pune, on May 12, 2008 09:49 PM

KEEP IT UP CERN !!!n see u soon with this mindblowing concept.

Habeeb Ahmed

,Abu Dhabi, on May 11, 2008 12:36 AM

Have a great info

udit

,Bangalore, on Apr 25, 2008 07:13 PM

I cant wait to see grid in operation... What i want to know is will it be available to home consumers who are suffering on broadband????

Sudraksh

,Nasik, on Apr 14, 2008 04:53 PM

Great Invention done by the researchers of CERN. But s GRID operational with IPv6. When is it coming to India ? How much will it cost ?

skgrao

,Bangalore, on Apr 14, 2008 12:02 AM

Request your post permission to post the text in my blog for free education to technical textiles students in INDIA.

Jos

,Thrissur, on Apr 09, 2008 10:07 AM

The LHC is a very dangerous project if some miss calculation occur it could even result in the end of the universe the project was started to study the orgin of universe the device could replicate bigbang effect or atleast make intermediate product like blackhole it could be end of life

JustWord

,Moon, on Apr 09, 2008 12:46 PM

"The LHC is a very dangerous project ifsome miss calculation occur it could even result in the end of the universethe project was started to study the orgin of universe the device couldreplicate bigbang effect or atleastmake intermediate product like blackholeit could be end of life" I agree, there is the possibility when messing with things that are not understood for great catastrophe.

Buttermilk

,San Francisco, on Apr 09, 2008 08:10 PM

Before making comments like this, it might be helpful to have completed at least 3rd grade science. In theory, miniature black holes are created as cosmic rays strike our atmosphere countless times a day. If and that's a big if, the LHC were to create black holes, they would be on a scale even smaller than those naturally occuring in our own atmosphere. If you take a moment to research a bit, you'll see that the goal is to try to discover here to fore unknown particles such as the Higgs Boson and the like.

Akbar

,karachi, on Apr 10, 2008 03:33 PM

Dont worry abour Buttermilk's comments... Just that he drank too much of it! And mind you... Drinking too much buttermilk will produce enough s*** to fill all black holes... and LHG or not, world will end...

Jos

,Thrissur, on Apr 11, 2008 12:36 PM

These where the few contents of the speech which made the experiment public. The science has developed very much since you studied 3rd grade. I lost the link of the speech since i read it many years ago. You could read more about it by googling "LHC black hole". If you think the black hole stuff is stupid then what will be the result of the experiment since the scientists at lhc project claimed it could happen

Chandra Shekhar

,Purulia, West Bengal, India, on Apr 11, 2008 10:40 AM

This is really the nice techhonology. But how much it will effective in Poor countries like INDIA, i have a doubt.

Levy Jones

,Decatur, on Apr 11, 2008 09:05 AM

what will be the cost?

anonymous

,merced, on Apr 11, 2008 04:07 AM

Now we can all have low power dumb terminals that connect to virtualized computer (i.e. citrix) environments that never need to be upgraded on your end because they will just be virutualized setups that you rent every month. No hard drives or other power hungry components, at that speed the servers could be monsters that just serve up any kind of environment you need.

big bang

,massau, on Apr 10, 2008 01:08 PM

May i ask who the hell needs so fast internet anyway. Piracy thugs? or a Govt peeping into your nose? Or countless guys exchanging years old porn collections?

Anonymous

,New Bern, on Apr 11, 2008 01:42 AM

Companies for one would be in need of it, also the internet is for exchange of information. Being able to exchange said information at instant speeds would mean more information would be spread faster. Personally I'd rather have faster internet than eat 3 meals a day.

e.d.

,Chicago, on Apr 11, 2008 03:47 AM

How'd you know about my years old porn collection?

Rajiv Mehta

,New Delhi, on Apr 09, 2008 12:44 AM

grid it !!!! instead of google it !! I guess..

shake

,Monroe, on Apr 10, 2008 08:36 PM

Google not only owns the grid, Google is the grid. didn't you know?

Rajiv Mehta

,New Delhi, on Apr 11, 2008 12:34 AM

I dont think google owns the grid !!

Sunidhi

,jaipur, on Apr 10, 2008 11:19 PM

When any body knows nothing........ he just goes to GRID.......

Betty Wies

,Colorado Springs, on Apr 10, 2008 09:36 PM

Does this mean the government cannot touch this and shut down this system or have ISP providers filter and gain access to our information?

Ping Fone

,College Station, on Apr 08, 2008 10:02 PM

If people would just get RID of their FEAR and following God's directions and HIS word this would be a far better place to live and get along in...The Grid sounds interesting to me, but then I'm a computer "geek". I've always known that cooper wires would never handle enough data to get things done quick enough. But when you accept that fact that their is a GOD and HE created this place...WHO CARES about the 'particulant matter'? Just a thought...J.I.L. Certified

Glenn

,Hillsville, on Apr 09, 2008 06:54 AM

Whats a "cooper wire"?

Glenn

,Hillsville, on Apr 09, 2008 06:59 AM

Particulant matter.....um? I don't get it.

Sean Ho

,woodburn, on Apr 09, 2008 09:30 AM

Maybe you meant Cooper Tires?

Jesus

,bethlehem, on Apr 09, 2008 01:26 PM

There is no such thing as GOD. If god exists and has created such a complex universe with all of the intricacies within it, then I have a question to pose to you - who created GOD?

shake

,Monroe, on Apr 10, 2008 08:29 PM

WHoultimately created you? A salemander? If we all evolved from the same life form why are we not all identical?

Ella J Harelson

,Baton Rouge, LA 70815, on Apr 10, 2008 07:39 PM

I just purchased a new computer and would like to know how the "Grid" will affect me. I use A T&T for my Internet

Jerry Farrell

,Indian Trail, NC, on Apr 10, 2008 07:33 PM

"The Grid" sounds like it will be a tremendous inovation for the computing world. However, will someone be able to do something about all of the bozo hackers that have nothing better to do than infect the internet and steal peoples personal information?

Ulysses "Lee" T

,Fort Lauderdale, Fl. 33308 #1102, on Apr 10, 2008 07:33 PM

How would you store and backup information?

mobin

,idukki, on Apr 10, 2008 05:32 PM

iwant all hello tunes codes

mobin

,idukki, on Apr 10, 2008 05:35 PM

please give me that

JohnMcCauley

,Derry, on Apr 09, 2008 07:18 PM

okok so we dont know about what will happen with lhc, we can have a good guess...nothing that good ...yet(i might add) but the fact that it causes black holes n stuff is ridiculous. honestly without poeple like those at cern. we wouldnt have visited mt. everest, the moon, the internet would not be here, electricity was considered sataneous when it was first publicised. soo. give it a chance befor eyou judge. p.s. the grid will kick ass, one problem though it fibre optic cables connect this was happens in an earthquake will these glass like cables break?

Nate

,Erie, PA, on Apr 09, 2008 08:28 PM

Any earthquake that would break fiber-optic cables would also rupture gas, water, sewer, electrical lines. An earthquake that big would cause an entire infrastructure collapse, so the status of your new fangled porn engine would be the least of your worries. Given the amount of fiber-optics already in use, this would not increase the risk at all. Fiber-optics can be repaired and replaced just as easily as anything else.

Akbar

,karachi, on Apr 10, 2008 03:28 PM

Pakistani Terrorists dont wait for Earthquakes. They cut the cables day in and day out...

mohammed mehroo

,calicut, on Apr 10, 2008 02:54 PM

that's great ...how ,when it will come

tarun

,delhi, on Apr 10, 2008 02:14 PM

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upendra mishra

,Utkal University Campus, Bhubaneswar, on Apr 10, 2008 12:17 PM

the required infrastructure for replacing the entire world wide web is the main problem.The grid concept is already there.There is no such new invention as of now.It is a well known theory.But the implementation part is more important.

Dijosh

,Mumbai, on Apr 10, 2008 11:57 AM

Its amazing. Very curious to know more about this. Is it consuming more power? what is Large Hadron Collider?

navanee

,Bangalore, on Apr 08, 2008 07:19 PM

India should atleast capture this opportunity to become leader in Grid Computing... Will Indian Billionaires invest in Grid Computing and provide world class service here, at the same time other countries implement, so that we will not lack 7 years of technology developement?

G. Tirumala Rao

,Visakhapatnam, India, on Apr 10, 2008 11:52 AM

My grandfather used to compute the agri products without studying mathematics or numbers, My father used to compute the same after a little education, I did the same after engineering, my son cannot do the same inspite of INTERNET. The last one is he keeps waiting for the connection, nor he knows any other way of doing it. So folks, Perfect human being is the one that is ultimate..no other form can replace the NATURAL Product, whether for connectivity or communication or computing. No need to spend high amounts for what we can do free!

ABHASH PATHAK

,New Delhi, on Apr 10, 2008 11:00 AM

what are the security checks provided in Grid? if it is so fast of course it will be of more use in less time. but what about the money factor if a broadband user wants to switch over to the grid?

gan

,chennai, on Apr 10, 2008 09:54 AM

any info regarding the business point of "GRID" ? <like jamie already questioned>

teh internets

,denver, on Apr 10, 2008 09:04 AM

So a new internet huh? We already have many problems with money-hungry corporations trying to control the regular internet (id even go as far as to say as violating our 1st amendment rights here in the us)

a guy

,harrodsburg, on Apr 10, 2008 07:31 AM

Skynet is becoming "self aware."

Linda

,Houghton Lake, MI, on Apr 10, 2008 06:52 AM

I think it is very interesting, but i'm not so sure about my personal information being kept "out there" somewhere, i'd rather have it right there in my home. The world is advancing quick now-a-days.

Floopy Joe

,East Ridge, TN, on Apr 09, 2008 11:56 PM

This will be great. I will now be able to get spammed at a rate high enough that I won't be able to keep up with it and my new computer will be rendered useless.

tejas

,sangli, on Apr 09, 2008 10:15 PM

this will be very great to have that speed for download and uploading

Myrra B.

,Pittsburgh, on Apr 08, 2008 08:26 PM

This is frightening; big gov. is going to be able to see our private information faster, the energy needed to get the computers for this system are astounding, and did anyone wonder what the LHC is? a particle accelerator to probe the center of the universe? That just sounds dangerous to me- we don't need to know that if we just think of the repercussions.

Nate

,Erie, PA, on Apr 09, 2008 08:36 PM

Do not speak ill of the LHC, it can read your thoughts! It's probably already coming for you!

J.C. Noble

,Des Moines, IA, on Apr 09, 2008 09:55 PM

Paranoia, Paranoia everybody's coming to get me! I think your making far too deep of conclusions based on what little information this article provides. Its nothing new, just an upgrade. P.S. there is already a large particle accelerator at Fermi Lab. To my knowledge they haven't destroyed the fabric of space time, yet.

guy

,Nassau, on Apr 07, 2008 11:48 PM

guy from London is right. The Grid is a aka for the Web, so no worries. However, at present fibre is already in place, effecting your high speed services from your local ISP. Ultimately though hard drives and local storage will never disappear, they will however become solid state and high capacity. There is even a hard drive in the works now that transfers data via optics rather than magnetics. SO all in all, the grid is just the next phase of tech.

Francis Lutz

,Tampa, on Apr 09, 2008 09:31 PM

All the components will be manufactured in china so it won't work half the time anyway.

jos_031

,Cochin, on Apr 09, 2008 10:10 AM

The LHC is a very dangerous project if some miss calculation occur it could even result in the end of the universe the project was started to study the orgin of universe the device could replicate bigbang effect or atleast make intermediate product like blackhole it could be end of life

JSILVA

,GENEVA, on Apr 09, 2008 03:44 PM

IF YOU DON;T KNOW WHAT YOUTALK ABOUT..JUST DON'T SAY NOTHING. I work on the LHC project since 10 years....and i just a blast to ear about things like "it wil create black holes and swallow the earth" .. Over your head , at this moment, millions of high energy particles coliisions are occuring, with much higher instensity than those on the LHC will be...are you seeing a black hole over you head? well..is problably just your empty head...

Buttermilk

,San Francisco, on Apr 09, 2008 08:02 PM

Before making comments like this, it might be helpful to have completed at least 3rd grade science. In theory, miniature black holes are created as cosmic rays strike our atmosphere countless times a day. If and that's a big if, the LHC were to create black holes, they would be on a scale even smaller than those naturally occuring in our own atmosphere. If you take a moment to research a bit, you'll see that the goal is to try to discover here to fore unknown particles such as the Higgs Boson and the like.

Anonymous

,Tulsa, on Apr 08, 2008 02:37 AM

The one question is " where can I get on it? & what type of equipment will I need?

an0n

,old york city, on Apr 08, 2008 03:57 AM

that's 2 questions...

Bill Bush

,Hawaii, on Apr 09, 2008 02:34 PM

What do you expect from anonymous

Binu

,Puducherry, on Apr 09, 2008 02:16 PM

Phenomena like Big bang and black hole formation are imposssible on earth.It may have radiation problems . But LHC is 100m beneth the earth

MPM

,Kochi, Kerala, on Apr 09, 2008 02:11 PM

<i>"Commenting on the possibilities of the grid, Ian Bird, project leader, said grid technology could make the Internet so fast that people would stop using desktop computers to store information and entrust it all to the internet "</i> That is ridiculous. All data cannot and should not on the network. What happens if the network goes down?

guy

,london, on Apr 07, 2008 10:56 PM

This is just a new network running off optic fibres and new fibre-optic exchanges overall improving the speed. With copper wires, more internet/telephone exchanges, therefore wires and things that will slow the speed down, are needed. They also loose much more data than optic fibres. The grid is a new name for world wide web, and instead of people buying computers with a lot of hard drive space, because they could drag and drop and copy a movie to a place on the web faster than to another place on the computer, they will be buying more webspace than high-spec computers.

Nazeer

,Calicut, on Apr 09, 2008 12:52 PM

What I understood is that the changes occures in infrastructure not in the cocept. it replaces paired cables,routers with fiber optics. is there any changes in the cocept, INTERNET?

greyduck

,o, on Apr 09, 2008 09:40 AM

My IP will most likely be the only system to use the retarded version of the grid

William Sean Ho

,woodburn, on Apr 09, 2008 09:36 AM

Cooper Tires

Danny

,yonkers, on Apr 09, 2008 06:51 AM

the new internet

maria miller

,brighton mi, on Apr 09, 2008 04:27 AM

I am trying to find out which company will be developing it or is there a company now and how soon it will be available in the US? Are there other links which I can access to learn more about the subject as well. Thank you maria miller

Hedkase

,Crawfordville, on Apr 09, 2008 04:23 AM

I knew that fiber optics would be the future for communication.

T.D.

,Lawton, on Apr 08, 2008 11:16 PM

OK, so maybe I missed something in the article. We are talking about updating the hardware(i.e. twisted pair, routers, etc.) right? Not a new protocol, software, etc. How is this news? We have always known that the basic infrastructure would have to be updated to handle the traffic. Kudos to Anita, the web / internet was created in the US contary to any claims by owlgore.

Stimpy

,D.C., on Apr 09, 2008 04:05 AM

Exactly. I was starting to wonder if I was missing something. Get rid of ISDN, DSL, etc. get new devices and hook it up to a fiber network on steroids. The big deal is $$ and electricity from what the article says. I'll be impressed when EVERYTHING is mobile and wireless. Now that would be real "cloud" technology.

Rajiv Mehta

,New Delhi, on Apr 09, 2008 12:34 AM

Absolutely amazing and shows dedication of purpose. Also proves my theory of what you can think is possible to do. And thats what exactly thr team at grid has one!! Congratulations to a new wired world

Rajiv Mehta

,New Delhi, on Apr 09, 2008 12:49 AM

Absolutely amazing and shows dedication of purpose. Also proves my theory of what you can think is what you can do. And thats exactly what the team at the Grid has done!! Congratulations to a new wired world

Anita Bonghit

,Berserkly, on Apr 08, 2008 03:38 AM

The "WEB" was created in America. Just as previously noted it was part of the ARPANET. The WEB was created in the US and HTML existed long before the Internet as an older electronic type style created at IBM (In America)

Dejan

,Sydney, on Apr 08, 2008 04:29 AM

The "Internet" was created in the US as a part of the ARPANET. Internet is the network that provides us access to the "WEB" which all the interlinked hypertext documents. WEB was created in CERN, Switzerland as widely known (Atleast outside the US). I am guessing you are an American...which would explain your ignorace.

Andrew Detwiler

,Aurora, on Apr 08, 2008 07:57 AM

Wow, what a perfectly wonderful stereotype. Clearly, you are an extremely intelligent person, capable of much more cognizant thought than the average person, as you are able to cordon a diverse, dynamic population into one simple mold: ignorance. And just in case you don't understand, lofty as your mind is, this is SARCASM. Keep the comments to yourself in the future, if you don't mind. Concentrate on the technology...It's why we're here.

tseymo

,Nashville, on Apr 08, 2008 10:23 PM

I thought owlgore invented the Internet??

Chris

,Mountain Top, on Apr 09, 2008 12:38 AM

Lol you mean AlGore? Owlgore. lmao

remo

,India, on Apr 09, 2008 12:32 AM

Be careful guys... this particle accelerator is going to be dangerous!!

Trid Kleiber

,Mount Vernon, on Apr 09, 2008 12:06 AM

This sounds really cool and if they can get it then i think ill start entrusting them with my data.

Anonymous

,Wichita, on Apr 08, 2008 11:52 PM

blah

S K G RAO

,BANGALORE - INDIA, on Apr 08, 2008 11:38 PM

Will this help all, available freely.

harry gadson

,norfolk virginia, on Apr 08, 2008 11:28 PM

i think that this grid is awesome and powerful and will change how everything is done in the nanosecond world

gregory

,greenacres, on Apr 08, 2008 11:07 PM

ARPNET on steroids (fiber optics + new routing technology)

George

,Burnet Tx, on Apr 08, 2008 05:18 PM

It's the next step in societal evolution. like from horse and buggy to auto's

Myrra B.

,Pittsburgh, on Apr 08, 2008 08:29 PM

and think about what the automobile has done to the environment, and how it has cost countries to supply the demand!

S.Gupta

,Jaipur, on Apr 08, 2008 08:11 PM

India is far away even from the broadband penetration. Forget the "grid dream"

Febin S A

,Thiruvananthapuram, on Apr 08, 2008 06:37 PM

GRID is absolutly render the web Obsolete. It is 1000 times faster than hi Speed broad band. Sceintist proved in their last experiments it is possible to transfer the 1800 mb data transfer in 1 sec. It is out of our imagination. Also 1000 -2000 participants in online game at the same time. It's real power will come out in coming days , its just a beginning. Last week one malaria vaccine experiment, GRID searches its possible outcomes is 14 millian , it takes 420 years in broad band. Now feels the difference, its not the imagination. The future world come up with GRID.

Mangalore,India

,Mangalore, on Apr 08, 2008 05:59 PM

It is a great news indeed!!! but what about the power consumption?The infastructure expence etc.???

Dileep. K. R.

,Bangalore, on Apr 08, 2008 04:28 PM

It's great to hear such things... When we can start the grid computing ??? im really fedup using these worthless broadband connections.. nobody is provinding the speed that they advertise... that's all only advertisements... I really welcome the GRID... it'll be the best... Welcome GRID !

WizZ

,Surat, on Apr 08, 2008 03:35 PM

Bu!!ShYT !!! In India internet will always be sad as there are to many hungry ISP's for money rather than providing world class services... Its just a joke for Indians . Am not being negative but looking at internet scenario .. i've strong doubts

Cary Elcome

,Mishima, Japan, on Apr 08, 2008 03:27 PM

At last! We MUST move forward. Floppy disks are history, so why shouldn't the Internet also fade gracefully into obsolescence?

Lynn

,Boston, on Apr 08, 2008 03:17 PM

Make the web obsolete is a strange way to put it. Sounds more like making it faster. Anyway, I see it as just another way to make the average consumer pay more for access.

Shanmugasundara

,Chennai, on Apr 08, 2008 02:24 PM

Yeah, it is good technology to increase the web usage. But i do not understand how this will obsolete the web? This may speeding up the data transimission and requires more cost in terms of electricity and cables.

aneesh

,trivandrum, on Apr 08, 2008 01:36 PM

super

Ash

,Bangalore, on Apr 08, 2008 12:00 PM

how cost effective is this? I mean in terms of power consumed vs data rate

Jon Riley

,Sydney, on Apr 08, 2008 11:44 AM

Just let me know where to plug in? I'd guess the access will be IPV6 via 10G ethernet fibre interfaces so now I need a NIC with drivers for that under Linux :) Bandwidth certainly wouldn't make much improvement to the performance of Vista or XP :)

Jamah Williams

,Atlanta, on Apr 08, 2008 10:05 AM

interesting

Gulliver

,Sydney, on Apr 08, 2008 09:57 AM

I assume this is based on a "typical broadband" connection of 1Mbit/s download speed (and much lower upload speed). Multiplying this by 10,000 gives 10Gbit/s which is easily supplied today by an STM-64 or OC-192 fibre circuit. Also 10Gigabit Ethernet ports are now common on backbone routers as used by Telcos all over the world. All that these guys are doing is cutting out the slow stuff in between ;=)

Mary Friedman

,Sound Beach, on Apr 08, 2008 09:40 AM

This should be reserved for special use.Not public domain

Nostro Costa

,Los Angeles, on Apr 08, 2008 03:49 AM

This won't make the web obsolete. Just faster. I agree that one must be wary of such technology. Governments are trying to take more control of our lives. Just look at the UN.

notaproblem

,minneapolis, on Apr 08, 2008 09:08 AM

Yeah, look how effective they are!

pie

,pie, on Apr 08, 2008 07:35 AM

howmuch this cost/ month?

sanal

,thalassery, on Apr 08, 2008 06:54 AM

thanks Ian Grid for this wonderful and beautiful discovery

satya

,ahmedabad, on Apr 07, 2008 07:54 PM

now this is called FUTURE IS CALLING

Jerry

,Michigan, on Apr 08, 2008 06:52 AM

I'm thinking that if everything is online then all our older computers will be jsut as obsilete as the internet. so then we'd all have to but new computers too. Wow what a way to make money from newer technology. So, who's gonna make the first GPS driven car so that the public can buy it?

George

,Burnet Tx, on Apr 08, 2008 06:46 AM

I have been working with broadband for 6 years. I knew internet would become obsolete in a few years just didn't know it would be this soon. Evolution at it's finest.

William Dorrity

,Goose Creek, on Apr 08, 2008 04:53 AM

I am 82 andI try to stay abreast of progress but at times I am overwhelmed such as now with "Grid." I cannot keep up with my dial-up OS X and you are telling me about speed. I appreciate your comment, "older people cannot evenimagine." That is in fact a truth. Bill Dorrity

Doug McMillan

,MANCHESTER, on Apr 08, 2008 03:42 AM

Hmm, easily policed as well...no doubt? Good for stamping out illegal or abuse promoting sites. But also good for big brother to have your whole life on file instantly. Not good for personal privacy. Good for disseminating propaganda as well. I respect the technology and ultra fast operation of this new network, but I think it's also bringing in a new era of controlling our lives and I'm not in favour of that.

Girl

,Kansas City, on Apr 08, 2008 03:01 AM

This has so many possibilities, good and bad. It sounds like it could be really bad when coupled with the human tendacy to sin. I don't know if anyone will listen to this, but It needs to be said by someone.

Clark

,Chicago, on Apr 08, 2008 01:41 AM

You're right. They didn't mastermind the Internet, they developed the Web (as stated in the article). The Web runs over the internet. Google it...

Billy

,Frankville, on Apr 08, 2008 01:19 AM

CERN did not mastermind the Internet. Internet originated out of ARPANET/DARPANET. Simply ridiculous.

Killa G

,Henderson, on Apr 08, 2008 01:15 AM

Tim Berners-Lee invented HTML and the World Wide Web while at CERN, not the concept of the Internet nor its original implementation with email, FTP, and Usenet. That is attributed to DARPA and the ARPANET project.

Jamie

,Sidney, on Apr 07, 2008 11:50 PM

Where can I find investing info. on the makers of the "Grid"

Flamboyz

,Hyderabad, on Apr 07, 2008 07:39 PM

CERN (Europe) - Conseil Europ?en pour la Recherche Nucl?aire (European Council for Nuclear Research) was the mastermind behind the development of Internet, and not DoD(USA), as such we can assume if CERN has declared their technological advancements in upgrading the Internet technologies, then they mean it. Its just a matter of time, when their technology is used worldwide.

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