The New Internet
There's a couple of interesting articles around discussing the future of the internet and where it's all heading. The Guardian are discussing a possible successor to the current internet - currently dubbed Geni. The plan would be to re-build things in the right way, cutting down on child pornography, viruses and spam - with one report claiming that 93% of email sent from the UK last year was spam.
Meanwhile, the official Internet2 has been under development for some time amongst the educational/scientific community, in much the same way as boring old Internet 1 was developed. It's actually been operating since 1996 and set a monster speed record in 2000 - read more digestible information about that on Wikipedia.
Not to be confused with Internet2 is Web 2.0.... about which PC Magazine have an interesting article discussing the potential bursting of that bubble, on a 2.0 scale.
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