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Imagine Downloading an entire full length High Definition movie in under three seconds over the Internet!

Or how would you like to download the entire music collection of the Beatles in the blink of an eye.

Near instantaneous downloads of music, high definition movies, on-demand cable tv and true video phones are going to within our grasp in the next few years, and the first steps towards that marvelous day will be taken later this summer.

Scientists at the Cern laborartory near Geneva, Switzerland have developed what will soon be called ‘The Grid‘ or as most people will come to recognize it ‘Internet 2.0‘. This new Internet will do for downloads and filesharing what Facebook and MySpace has done for social networking.

A significant portion of this second Internet has already been built. It will not completely replace the existing Internet as much as it will run in combination with it.

You could think of The Grid like a permanent highway by-pass around a congested city street system. The new Internet 2.0 will not directly connect to every home that is currently on the Internet immediately, but it will allow traffic to flow much more smoothly and faster to the high traffic points on the roadway. Therefore making the overall flow of traffic, both on and off the new highway, much quicker.

Experts predict that the typical Internet connection of today will eventually become up to 10,000 times faster as The Grid eventually fans out across the globe and spreads beyond the academic centers that are scheduled to go ‘on-line’ this fall.

For additional information you can go the original story on TimesOnline

Tech-Bitz will make sure to keep you informed of all the latest developments of this new network, and what they will mean for the average web surfer, as The Grid goes live later this summer and early fall.

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