Don't belive either, that the grid would be availabe to the public.
Took over 20 years till the internet was open to the general public and there was nothing else then. Now everything is somehow connected to some kind of network, enough possibilities to get speed without the grid.
What I really disliked about the articel were the random thrown in numbers. 10000 times faster than what ?
Does the internet have a certain speed ?
And where are those 2 million servers ?!
Can't even belive there are 2 million facilities studying that stuff.
This thing will surely be the biggest accomplishment of mankind for a long time, even if the black holes they create might destroy us
(or rather according to quantuum mechanics and string theory, will surely destroy us and will not destroy us
)