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Coming soon: superfast internet 10,000 times faster

timesonline.co.uk — THE internet could soon be made obsolete. The scientists who pioneered it have now built a lightning-fast replacement capable of downloading entire feature films within seconds. At speeds about 10,000 times faster than a typical broadband connection, “the grid”

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  • djvchris, on 04/06/2008, -3/+406 Obviously our current series of tubes is not extensive enough. We need a bigger truck.
  • Clad, on 04/06/2008, -10/+289Finally I can get Backdoor Sluts 9 when I need it!
  • infra172, on 04/06/2008, -2/+218Someone tell John Connor.
  • inactive, on 04/06/2008, -2/+210"Social networking could become the main way we communicate."
    Are you sure that this article is recent?
  • Typhoon2009, on 04/06/2008, -2/+186Spoilers: It'll come out in Sweden for $50 USD/month in 5 years. It'll come out in the US for $300 USD/month in 15 years.
  • holtzdoggy, on 04/06/2008, -7/+182Once Comcast finds out about this, it is all over.
  • Peko, on 04/06/2008, -5/+156Ok, correct me if i'm wrong, but it seems like the big crazy "advance" here is fibre optics. That crazy new technology, fibre optics, what will they think of next?
  • MDrake, on 04/06/2008, -7/+151Porn.
  • agilbe10, on 04/06/2008, -1/+132BACKDOOR SLUTS 9?!?!?!?! That makes croch capers 3 look like naughty nurses 2
  • christoast, on 09/04/2008, -1/+88I j-just the other day.. got -an-an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday, I GOT IT YESTERDAY
  • Tyfon, on 04/06/2008, -6/+71The "grid" and the LHC. thank god for Europe.
  • Tyler_P., on 04/06/2008, -0/+65If by "soon" you mean 20 years from now.
  • karrtoon, on 04/06/2008, -1/+62"The power of the grid will become apparent this summer after what scientists at Cern have termed their “red button” day - the switching-on of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the new particle accelerator built to probe the origin of the universe. The grid will be activated at the same time to capture the data it generates. " skynet will become self-aware..
  • ZeDJS, on 04/06/2008, -0/+58Next... Real portals :o
  • wibambau, on 04/06/2008, -1/+57Once again the hard drive regains its title of bottleneck.
  • dhVyse, on 04/06/2008, -1/+53***** comcast.
  • inactive, on 04/06/2008, -1/+51Torrent speeds will still be shaped to 30 kbps.
  • gmprunner, on 04/06/2008, -1/+51Relax, it's only gonna cost $19,999/month.
  • Kranklin, on 04/06/2008, -1/+50The thumbnail has nothing to do with it
  • greenlight2001, on 04/06/2008, -3/+51Eh, the series went down hill after BDS7...
  • sethkinast, on 04/06/2008, -0/+47Must have been sent over that new superfast Internet.
  • thailand1972, on 04/06/2008, -1/+48I've been trying to download that file since the 90s.
  • explnx, on 04/27/2009, -1/+47Fiber that isn't constantly being interrupted by copper wire, that is.
  • threemagic, on 04/06/2008, -3/+48You're one of those people who say a lot of things that sound superior but really aren't.

    If you have a NAS drive on 10mb and use large files, it's slow. If you have a NAS drive on gigabit then it's fast.

    Not to mention, he didn't suggest net booting (which is done in Citrix and TS quite fast nowadays, it's not 1980) all he suggested was saving files remotely.
  • thatsoccerkid, on 04/06/2008, -2/+47now i can finally download the those big torrent files my favorite? top 1000 songs of the 80's.
  • ElectroOverlord, on 04/06/2008, -0/+43At least the Buffer on my Real Player will take a few less minutes...
  • exp3000, on 04/06/2008, -3/+44Hopefully they wont do any throttling.
  • ExRe, on 04/06/2008, -4/+43"From The Sunday Times
    April 6, 2008"

    It comes from the future.
  • thewaxgrid, on 04/06/2008, -3/+41*****. Just like the super-fast internet that was promised nearly two years ago: http://digg.com/tech_news/Super_Fast_Internet_to_D ...
  • Clad, on 04/06/2008, -4/+39***** the RIAA
  • GafferXL, on 04/06/2008, -2/+34""...“the grid” will be able to send the entire Rolling Stones back catalogue from Britain to Japan in less than two seconds."

    And, like all technological advancement, it will be used to download pornography more efficiently.
  • mjwhip, on 04/06/2008, -0/+30Holographic porn.
  • TopherT, on 04/06/2008, -1/+29well thats not all that... *****, wait, thats a comma.
  • dudetaz2003, on 04/06/2008, -1/+29One ticket to Sweden please, one way.
  • jdconn01, on 04/06/2008, -0/+27i hate having that last name
  • dafragsta, on 04/06/2008, -2/+29The internet will be dead! But what will we call this new "international network?"

    I love it when people roll up sensationalism into an article so that something must die rather than just be improved. It'll still be the ***** "internet."
  • yingjai, on 04/06/2008, -0/+26are you related to John Connor?
  • thailand1972, on 04/06/2008, -1/+26".....and Japan will reciprocate with the entire back catalogue of tentacle porn videos sent to Britain in just 2 seconds...."
  • bizchris, on 04/06/2008, -0/+24Have you seen this boy?
  • inactive, on 04/06/2008, -0/+23I think the thumbnail means "This article is a landslide of *****.

    ... And your house needs better foundation."
  • Bartboy919, on 04/06/2008, -0/+23Maybe you should replace that period with a comma prior to "Or", Mr Grammar Nazi.
  • Dundasbro, on 04/06/2008, -1/+23Don't you listen? The internet is NOT like a truck, something you can dump things on ;-)
  • zaferk, on 04/06/2008, -1/+23some1 doesnt get the joke
  • oneoverzero, on 04/06/2008, -1/+23Yes, because thats how time travel works.
  • willy1234x1, on 04/06/2008, -2/+23Porn now available two days earlier than you wanted.
  • picsectionpleez, on 04/06/2008, -0/+20The next thing you know they'll be calling this ***** the Web 3.0 ::throws up::
  • gh0st3000, on 04/06/2008, -0/+20the advance is that the entire network is made up entirely of fiber, resulting in a gigantic bandwidth increase, and latency (pings) of the speed of light (slowed down several ms by processing on both sides of course)
  • negativenancy, on 04/06/2008, -0/+17Do you also hate having to bear the responsibility of saving our future?
  • jaydoj, on 04/06/2008, -1/+18Come with us if you want to live.
  • inactive, on 04/06/2008, -0/+16lolrealplayer
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