Skeptical of the “superfast internet” that is allegedly coming
Did you hear about this?
Jonathan Leake, the Science Editor for the Times Online (a great online news source by the way) penned an article titled “coming soon, superfast internet“. The article can be summed up in the first stanza:
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.
Hmm. Sounds delicious and enticing, much like a Whopper Meal at Burger King, or those damn Sonic ads that run here in Maryland, even though there are no Sonics in Maryland.
Much like the lack of Sonics in Maryland, I doubt that this newfangled superfast internet will show up any time soon. Some users commenting on another syndicated source of this article (Neowin.net’s article) tend to agree with my skepticism as well.
Either way, this new internet is going to be called THE GRID, and it has been developed at CERN, which makes total sense if you know the true history of the internet (as opposed to Al Gore’s statements about the internet). I say let’s just go ahead and call it THE MATRIX and get it over with. Now all we have to do is find Morpheus stationed within CERN to figure out how to break out of our alien human feeding bags and unplug the back of our skulls from this messy VR we call EARTH.
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