G'bye Web, hello Grid
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- Spookytim
No doubt I'm putting myself face first into the timeline shredder here, but while I'm logged back in, I just thought I'd mention that The Times and New Scientist have just ran stories about the end of the web, coming as soon as this August, when The Grid goes online.
Old news to you? Apologies.
New news to you? See for yourself....
- detritus0
Give it another 15 years. Unless you're an academic or a financial trader.
- Spookytim0
Just thought I'd mention it as I hadn't seen mentioned it here. The Scientific Journal estimates that the system is so incredibly capable that its feasible to assume business and domestic use will be possible within 6 months of its official launch without hampering its purpose one jot. It goes on to suggest that it could be a pay-to-use alternative to the internet.
- chossy0
finally I can make that chick with the muckle tits in weird science :D
- pyramd0
you took the red pill didn't you
- mistermik0
whats it all about - I need facts!
I got bored after first 3 words.
- moth0
So what? They put together some fibre optics. What's new about it?
- TheBlueOne0
My question: How do I get in on the ground floor to monetize the thing before anyone else realizes - i.e. ala grabbing free web domain names circa 1994?
- Mojo0
http://www.business-standard.com…
quote: "Downloading music should not take more than 5 seconds. "
It's comments like that which make me really doubt something - when people make really vague claims about something. Define 'music' , a midi file? an mp3? an mp3 album? a lossless track? zzzz
- TheBlueOne0
"...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."
Exactly how did that become a benchmark?
"Fedex! We can get you the entire Rolling Stones back catalogue overnight!"
- Spookytim0
"I'm partly invoking Sod here - hoping I'll be proved wrong by a buoyant economy and increased inter-connectivity"
According to the Economics editor of the BJS, the arrival of the grid in August is 'the best thing we've got to stave off global economic depression once again", which is why its use by us mere mortals is possibly closer than you speculate. It will singlehandedly revolutionise all computer reliant industry. Developers of web content and enetertainment will no longer be confined to what can be acheived and delivered on aged telecomms apparatus, datat transfer will be like nothing ever experienced before. Entire films can be transmitted around the globe simultaneously, thereby ushering in a new era of online, TV and movie entertainment, as well as finally marrying the music intractably with the moving image that accompanies it. Cloud computing will replace local computing, so developers will have a whole new set of freedoms to create new technology software, and on top of all that it will no longer be free, so the sheer amounts of revenue this will create globally, and for country-based profit centres will be phenomenal.
So from what I've read, its either a case of the world goes face first into the proellors of GED, or they start licensing access to this system and we get catapulted into the 21st century at long last.
sorrt if this is badly typed/worded, i'm eating my lunch.
- TheBlueOne0
"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. "
Oh well, that mean Doomsday is surely upon us. And if not, the second question is - has the US CIA already found away to "wiretap" the Grid?
- kelpie0
yeah when they hit that button the entire universe will collapse in on itself in a matter of seconds anyway so who gives a fuck if I can listen to every Stones track ever about 90 seconds after I am crushed into a space smaller than a quark and spewed out into the alternaverse backward
- Spookytim0
I'm just happy that a web luddite like me can be the one to deliver this news to tech savvy powerhouses like you lot (cue lots of people pointing out they were already well read on the matter).
Anyway, I'm not supposed to be here
POP
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- I think you mean:
*goneTheBlueOne - where did he go?.... thats mad one minute here then whallop gone :/chossy
- he's drifted through the mirror, he may never come backkelpie
- he's sent himself to japan in less than 2 seconds.ender79
- I think you mean:
- detritus0
They've been banging on about Grids of different flavours for years - and the licensing issue (potentially a variant on 'tiered internet') is more worrisome for the net as we currently know - ie. if it's a wholly separate network, it becomes easier and more logical to charge a premium for it - leading to a fracturing of the web as we know and the corporate commodotisation of it. This is the sharp point of the digital divide that's been increasingly worrying people smarter than I. Before, there were the haves and have nots, in the future there may well be the have nots, the have somes and have it alls (at a price).
I really hope it does become consumer-useful, though I've a strong suspicion it'll remain in academic hands for a wee while yet. I was just reading last night of a new telescope they're building in Chile, which will scan the skies fully each night, generating 30 terabytes of data to be distributed worldwide daily. This is just one project, for one arm of science. Other arms (think genetics) are becoming increasingly digital hungry too, which is what makes me think the current CERN effort will remain private for the forseeable future.
But hark! Listen to me pretending to know what I'm gibbering about again.
- Kudos for the "sharp point of the digital divide" phrasing.TheBlueOne
- Hmm.. thanks, though I missed the word 'wedge' from that phrasing, so it didn't really make much sense!detritus
- Dancer0
I had no idea Spookytim. You were the first to break it to me...
I am a print designer though and tend not to read the New Scientist
- neue75_bold0
a shady lane – everybody wants one...
- Mojo0
I think QBN needs to be on the grid, with all the crap on this board. ;0
- kelpie0
peaking of talking monkeys; did you ever see the star trek where they all devolved to apes and they were all different species depending on their characters?
that's just bad science that is.
- +S to 1st wordkelpie
- ?! Best Episode Ever, man.
*ribit*detritus - Hold on - that wasn't a test to see who'd seen that episode, and thereby was an ardent ST:NG fan, was it? Dang.detritus
- LLAP dude.kelpie
- oh. seen this
http://www.cs.bris.a…
excuse us geeks, peoplekelpie - *goes spack-handed for a couple of seconds, tongue flaying frantically* Nope, can't do it. LLAP back atcha.detritus
- Thanks, I think I saw that years ago but never got around to reading it - putting it in my 'To Read' bookmark folder now!detritus
- Corvo0
7 years to build? I don't get it.