The Grid - a new internet but 10,000 times faster

[Jake Rogue]

Originally Posted by Dextar

All of the above taught me the same lesson repeatedly!

"Never" really means "soon!"

And as the years pass, "soon" comes faster and faster!

The Singularity is Near.

[Ozi]

Thanks to the link of that book Rogue, it looks interesting (I'll try and read it between hunts )

I'm always amazed at the quality of people on this forum. I am no expert on the physical structure of the web and yet have learned alot from reading the responses put on this thread. Thankyou to all who have contributed.

I guess optic fibre will be the next big thing as it eventually gets distributed out to homes. But then maybe that will be overtaken by wireless which has a much lower investment the physically running the optic fibre cables all over the place.

The biggest thing slowing down the optic fibre roll out is that no company wants to invest billions doing it only to find that by the time they are finished their technology has been superseeded.

[Vedder]

Originally Posted by Dextar

Heheh I heard the same such talk back in the late 80s.
...
"Never" really means "soon!"

And as the years pass, "soon" comes faster and faster!
...

When will the web replace RL food?
When will the moon be made from cheese?
When you learn to fly by flapping your ears?
When will George Bush receive an Nobel Peace Prize?

You think "soon" is the answer to everything?

[Lobbe]

aha..... sounds interesting

[Naithen]

Perhaps this "grid" wont be available to gamers but if the technology is out there i dont see why a company like Microsoft wouldnt build a "gaming grid" that could be used as a specific destination for all online gaming. I would love to play a game that could handle millions of players all online on the same server at the same time , what epic battles you could have then

[Dextar]

Originally Posted by Vedder

When will the web replace RL food?
When will the moon be made from cheese?
When you learn to fly by flapping your ears?
When will George Bush receive an Nobel Peace Prize?

You think "soon" is the answer to everything?

Not to everything but when dealing with new technology whenever you hear sweeping statements you can usually bank on them being proved wrong at least in part, eventually.

Consider:

When will the Web replace RL food? Being that the body takes in food for energy to run on its not all that far-fetched (Just not practical atm.)

We regulate electrical energy by use of the net. Power generation stations are monitored and run by networked computer systems. Imagine if through genetic research we are able to adapt the body to run purely from energy from any handy source? Leaving us to just supplement our energy diet with minerals and vitamins? It would be handy I would gather.

When will the moon be made from cheese? My guess is when Kraft Foods becomes wealthy enough to afford the Nanotech Research to make our Nearest Neighbor into a Spherical Billboard that dominates our nightsky. Of course they may have to fight the United Federation of Planets to wrest control of the moon from them but hey weirder battles have taken place right here on Terra firma.


When you learn to fly by flapping your ears? With the advances in genetic research don't be surprised at the things people will do to their bodies in the search to stand out from the crowd.

300 years ago if you walked around with a small box that emitted disembodied voices (cell phone) you would have been burned as a witch.

Its hard to imagine what changes will take place in 300 years hence being that the speed of innovation and discovery is proceeding at a breakneck pace compared even to just 50 years ago.

When will George Bush receive an Nobel Peace Prize? Never. He has the wrong letter after his Name. (If it was a "D" instead of an "R" then he would probably get one for some monumental achievement like chewing gum or tyeing his own shoes, etc.)

In a world where we can have pastel-hued dancing monkeys at the tip of our fingers anything is possible!

Dex

[Ozi]

Originally Posted by Dextar

Not to everything but when dealing with new technology whenever you hear sweeping statements you can usually bank on them being proved wrong at least in part, eventually.

Consider:

When will the Web replace RL food? Being that the body takes in food for energy to run on its not all that far-fetched (Just not practical atm.)

We regulate electrical energy by use of the net. Power generation stations are monitored and run by networked computer systems. Imagine if through genetic research we are able to adapt the body to run purely from energy from any handy source? Leaving us to just supplement our energy diet with minerals and vitamins? It would be handy I would gather.

When will the moon be made from cheese? My guess is when Kraft Foods becomes wealthy enough to afford the Nanotech Research to make our Nearest Neighbor into a Spherical Billboard that dominates our nightsky. Of course they may have to fight the United Federation of Planets to wrest control of the moon from them but hey weirder battles have taken place right here on Terra firma.


When you learn to fly by flapping your ears? With the advances in genetic research don't be surprised at the things people will do to their bodies in the search to stand out from the crowd.

300 years ago if you walked around with a small box that emitted disembodied voices (cell phone) you would have been burned as a witch.

Its hard to imagine what changes will take place in 300 years hence being that the speed of innovation and discovery is proceeding at a breakneck pace compared even to just 50 years ago.

When will George Bush receive an Nobel Peace Prize? Never. He has the wrong letter after his Name. (If it was a "D" instead of an "R" then he would probably get one for some monumental achievement like chewing gum or tyeing his own shoes, etc.)

In a world where we can have pastel-hued dancing monkeys at the tip of our fingers anything is possible!

Dex

Nice one Dex, it is amazing how quickly things develop.

I came across an article yesterday saying that IBM have developed new technology for storage devices: phased array storage that will run 500 times faster than flash and is much smaller using 1/4 the power. The key message in the article was that IBM have hit a target for storage devices that they expected to reach in 2015. It just shows how quickly advances can come in computing.