The race for a new internet

[zengrifter]

I already don't like it! zg

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The race for a new internet
Rival academics are competing to create a new, faster internet.

Sean Dodson investigates
Thursday November 8, 2001
The Guardian

There is another internet - already operational - where users are receiving connections up to 100 times faster than people at home. It is a network so swift and so powerful its advocates are claiming it has already changed the way we will interact with the internet in the future.

This new internet is being developed in universities and research laboratories across the globe. And although its usage might be confined to academics, its benefits could spill over into the mainstream in only a few years.

...more - http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetne...589431,00.html

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I Don't Know What This New Internet
Will Look Like
By MichaelCrawford in Technology
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2007/2/19/55525/2785