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# The Grid - More Power Than The Pentagon
- URL: https://www.protein.xyz/the-grid-more-power-than-the-pentagon/
- Published: 2003-07-04T18:35:12.000Z
- Updated: 2016-05-24T15:18:35.000Z
- Description: In two weeks time scientists in Geneva will throw the switch on the biggest development in global communication since Tim Berners-Lee,…
- Author: Protein
- Tags: Seeds, #protein, #Import 2024-06-11 13:21

In two weeks time scientists in Geneva will throw the switch on the [biggest development in global communication](http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/news/story/0,12976,990394,00.html?ref=protein.xyz) since Tim Berners-Lee, the British inventor of the internet, scrawled "www" on a blackboard in 1989\. They will announce that 10 laboratories around the world, including one near Didcot in Oxfordshire, can now talk to each other through their computers."

![](http://www.earthreality.net/globalmed.jpg)

In the age of high-speed digital communication this may not seem revolutionary. But this small step for computer kind marks the launch of a new technological concept - the next generation of the web. It is called the grid, and scientists say that before long it will change everything we do - from scientific research to business to tackling fires to booking holidays, and even to the way we watch and craft movies. Under the grid, the power of your machine - all those gigabytes, RAM and gigahertz - will become irrelevant. No matter how primitive and cheap your computer, you will have access to more power than currently exists in the Pentagon ... begging the question [is Google God](http://forum.proteinos.com/viewtopic.php?t=159&ref=protein.xyz)?