'The grid' may replace 'the internet'

Man, talk about a creepy name. You'd think they'd name it something a little less Orwellian.

I wonder how much of the end user hardware currently in use will be able to support a 10 K increase in speed and the data it represents?

Looks like the economy is getting a boost. Everyone has to buy a new computer! And yea Ben, the name gives me a chill but I do like the idea of less waiting. Even on the broadband connection I am on now I still have to wait..a little...and that's a little too much. The problem gets worse during peak hours and durig thos peak hours I definately can't play any online games! Booooo. Gooooooo Grid! Tron comes to mind. That's a little scary.

The name is really creepy but that would be cool for faster internet.Its going to cost alot of money thou i dont think its going to be ready by the summer

Interesting... I wonder if this will end up like Johnny Mnemonic where you can download info to your brain and frag your brain... that would seriously rock.

Can't We just pause a little to check where PROGRESS as it is called would take the human race. What will such an exponential leap in wireless circuitry connections bring to the human being?
There is only that much information an average individual needs for optimum functionality.
Or is this just a race to where we cease to exist as corporeal entities and just only in some server somewhere in cyber-oblivion...?

Orwellian or not, if it makes things more like ReBoot, I think I'm okay with it.

They ask if there will be enough sustainable energy to keep it running..What if the thing starts to draw on its' own and can't be shut down...haha .oh..that's a movie that I saw..no way that sould happen...right?

ahh leave it to the swis to create a whole new level of creepy. i wonder if you will be able to access it with yet another switch of there red army knives that are so popular

...Reboot you say..?

Hello, there is a reason why the human life is finite. Really, would you want to live forever? I for one would rather check out when my ticket-to-ride expires.
No matter how long 1 lives there are mechanisms built into the universe that ensures that no 1 over stays their welcome.

Be skeptical of this, as I'm thinking this is just the so called internet 2.0 AKA government regulated and censored internet. Everything has a price, even your privacy these days.

REBOOT!!!!
Best show ever!

But srsly, Im with Bob 100% here. The coming of a new internet brings with it may concerns. The internet as we know it is the freest place on earth. We can say what we want, when we want, and remain totally anonymous. We can share anything without having to pay, can pick and choose where to surf and what to see or read. If this new internet becomes government regulated, which i believe they will try to do, we might lose all the freedom we have on the internet. Imagine having to subscribe to a website just to visit it, just the way people pay to watch channels on their televisions. Having free speech be censored and paid for. This new "grid" could be one of the best things for us or the worst.

This certainly begs for net neutrality legislation, and for public funds to help develop this new information infrastructure just as the internet initialy did. This could indeed be a serious economic boon. Though its strange, this technology is faster than internet 2.0 which was already offering speeds of 30 gigabytes a second. or any concurrent web2.0 applications, CERN simply circumvented an entire generation of computing in one fell swoop. We weren't even prepared for internet 2.0 to be released into the general public our greatest research and academic institutions were barely capable of sustaining it, let alone of growing it to the size and speed proposed here. It's mind boggling to say the least. I had seen some of the web 2.0 experiments at Indiana University, or at least read about them and I was researching a new satelite internet service in my area promising three gigs a second as a minimum for next year. I couldn't even have imagined this.

"Man's reach exceeds his grasp, Mans graps exceeds man's courage."

i wounder how much it cost?

Do I have to get 10,000 times faster to use it?

The grid would definitely change society from what Simon_S said. However, it sounds kind of scary when he says the human brain could be downloaded. This would open even more dangerous things that can happen to people. Mind control? I don't like that idea; mind control. However, the article never said that you would be able to download the human brain.

I like the grid. I think it could be a great new "internet".

Change is inevitable [in technology, in this instance a new "internet"]- except from a vending machine.
~Robert C. Gallagher

I CALL FIRST DIBS ON DOWNLOADING MY BRAIN ON TO THE GRID!

faster downloads and uploads= good
a maniacal swiss science sect controlling the word!!!! = bad

I thought the point was to get off...?

I don't need high-definition video telephony. I just need mobile phone calls that don't sound like crap.

what if your sim is occupied by the user and the power shuts off??? does my brain fry unless I interface or something???

Virus detected!: common cold...
yhea, i don't want that to happen to my brain...
or even worse...
"you have been selected to win a free ipod. "
i don't think anyone want's that re-drilled into their minds while on "the grid"

Sounds cool but were did you hear about the downloading your mind thing?

Does this mean that I'll be able to have a lightcycle and data-disk?

I've got dibs on pizza.grid !

Here comes Skynet.

That'd be a great network to use IF the universe still exists after they turn the Large H Collider on and create a "strange matter" particle, or a "small" black hole (last i checked any blackhole will suck the surrounding universe into it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/29/science/29collider.ht...

What am I going to do with 10,000 times more porn?

Not more....10,000 times faster! (Yeeeeeouch!)

Very cool development. Everything at this point in time is soooo limited in terms of it's ability to process and transfer data.

WOW!

This sounds like a load of BULL.

If it works, then the swiss can just corner the porn Game.

I live in Geneva, not all that far from CERN - hopefully I will be among the first private individuals able to connect to The Grid - and I don't find anything creepy about that name, no more creepy than The Web. As for hardware, it would seem that The Grid would make it obsolete too, as The Grid could host one's information and everything else we keep in our computers - only a screen and a keyboard would be necessary, along with a connection.

"Here comes Skynet."
-BurningBush

That was my thought exactly!

I cant wait to see this NOT happen..Do you think time warner will be offering it soon because my broadband sucks? lol

Do I have to be 10,000 times smarter to use it??

Uhhh, New World Order anyone? We must be intergrated into ''The Grid'', now thats some creepy shhhh....don't say anything...

cant wait

yeah I'm definitely feeling you on that Mobius, NWO all the way. Pretty much what I was saying.

Neat!
The Corporates were about to invade the Internet anyway.

hmmm..

i wonder how much this new 'grid' will cost us.
we're already going through a national TV cable change, and we will most likely go through an internet change in the future.
*sigh*
what will the poor do?