Building The Next Internet, 250 Times Faster. The series of tubes that make up the Internet are getting bigger.
Tomorrow President Obama will sign an executive order at the White House speeding the way for laying new cable, for example, by letting companies install broadband during highway construction work, which can lower the cost of installation up to 90%. At the same time, new applications of distributed cloud computing, virtualized networks that use software to simplify the flow of information, and symmetrical gigabit bandwidth connections all the way to your laptop, taken together, have the potential to reach speeds up to 250 times faster than today's Internet.
But what will we do with all that Internet? The goal of US Ignite is to get people in 25 cities to build at least 60 new applications in strategic areas--health care, education, clean energy, manufacturing, transportation, and security--all taking advantage of what these Speedy Gonzales networks can do. [Image: Lichtmeister via Shutterstock] World debt comparison: The global debt clock. Scottrbe. The Zeitgeist Movement. TEDxOjai - Peter Joseph - The Big Question [ The Zeitgeist Movement ] Uniting the way to the new world.