Next stop for cyberworld: The Grid

[Nottingham]

Next stop for cyberworld: The Grid
By ROBERT S. BOYD
Knight Ridder Tribune
WHAT'S AN EXABYTE?
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/2110478


WASHINGTON -- First came the Internet in the late 1960s, electronically linking computers around the world. The '90s brought the World Wide Web, making it possible to exchange words, pictures, music, videos and information of every sort.

Now comes the Grid, a third wave in the evolution of the cyberworld that promises to give users access to unprecedented computing power, services and data no matter where they are located.

Ultimately, supporters say, the Grid will be like having a supercomputer at your fingertips. Astronomers in Massachusetts and California could share the same telescope in Hawaii without leaving their offices. A travel agent could give customers a live video tour of a resort in Cancun so they can watch sunbathers frolic on the beach in real time.

"Consumers are about to be touched, influenced and benefited by grid computing in ways they can't even imagine," said Thomas Hawk, manager of grid computing for IBM in Somers, N.Y. "Advances in medicine, improvements in homeland defense, more advanced video games are right around the corner

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Why when someone says this helps Homeland Security I get nervous!

:eyes:

[PartyPooper]

1. I can't wait!

I want to see exactly what's really going on in the White House, in Crawford, aboard Air Force One, and, of course, in Kennebunkport.

B-)

[Nottingham]

2. PartyPooper I want to see the footage too!

:bounce:

[armand76]

3. cyberterrorism

You may be right to be nervous.

The way critical infrastructure has been controlled in the past used computing protocols that the average person didn't know, hence "security through obscurity". Nowadays, using common protocols that the internet uses, the common household hacker may be able to get into the "grid".

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cyberwar/

[newyawker99]

5. Hi armand76!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Nottingham]

4. Oh Thats a Great Article! Mega thanks!

:bounce:

[thebigidea]

6. once again proving the Firesign Theatre to be prophets

Waiting for the Electrician, or Someone Like Him...

[reprobate]

7. But what will they do about the radio frequency interference?

The RF generated by power lines carrying digital signals is going to cause massive interference to radio, tv, sortwave, and any other rf signals within miles of every power line.

It will also put is in violation of international treaties.

I believe this is just a red herring to prepare us for regulation of the internet.

Do not believe ANYTHING that's said by anyone connected to this administration.