Cern, which is based near Geneva, has been busy for the past seven years working on "The Grid" that boasts speeds nearly 10,000 times faster than a typical broadband connection, and may soon render the Web obsolete. 

Scientists at Cern intend to activate "The Grid" this summer alongside what they term as "red button day" when they will switch on the new accelerator built to probe the origin of the Universe.

How does "The Grid" differ from the internet, you ask?  While the internet has been built by linking together a mesh of cables and routing equipment, most of which lacks the capacity for high-speed data transmission, "The Grid", by contrast has been built with dedicated fibre optic cables and modern routing centres, ensuring there are no outdated components that manage to slow down the speed of data transmission. 

Virtually, you will not need your desktop anymore to store information.  Scientists refer to this as "cloud computing", where people will keep their information online and access it from anywhere. 

My point to this blog is, your information will be stored "everywhere and no where" at once, and will be much easier to blind encrypt, making it much more difficult to intercept.  ISP's will be a thing of the past.  Take that Bush Administration and the ISP's that yield to it!  

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Personal Stuff
written by Ron, April 13, 2008

Thats what we all need our personal stuff everywhere but in our possession, thats like you coming over and going thru my house taking what ever you want anytime you want it, I love it I'm getting tired of all my stuff anyway I need to give it to everybody let them keep track of it.

Reservations
written by Jordan Cahill, April 28, 2008

This sounds great in theory but I'm a bit skeptical of "routing centers". If the government decides to shut down a website for any reason, they could potentially blacklist the site by implementing filtering programs at all of these locations.

Not sure what is good or bad about fiber optics
written by Theresa Nielsen, May 28, 2008

Quest had people coming by the neighborhoods talking about fiberOptics and internet upgrade something or other, however they sent a very young kid that I just could not understand what he was trying to say and that the new service was "free" for 3 months at first. I kind of did not feel comfortable for Why they send young kids that do not even know how to explain the new service nor it seemed that they understand it? Is it more convenient that way? offering something "New" but yet no one seems to know what exactly is the upgrade?