Internet was around for 16-17 years now and we can't imagine living without it now.It made revolution in form of global conscience and free information. Everything is only a fingertip away from us.
Idea of The Grid is that every computer shares resources with grid and other way around. This way you'll have power of millions computers around the world. Other thing is that every computer needs to be registered with name and adress in order to connect to grid. So everybody will be identified as soon as they log on.
No more privacy.
Idea started out as a solution for processing vast amounts of information that comes from colliding matter in LHC at CERN.
What do you think about the idea?
Some links to get familiar with it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gri...ecommunication)
http://www.wired.com/science/discove.../2001/03/42230
http://lcg.web.cern.ch/LCG/
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