I’m a subscriber to codeproject news letters and of all the news letters they sent to me, the one that intrigued me the most was the one on Japan’s plan to replace the internet as revealed by Japanese communications minister Yoshihide Suga. We all know that virtually all human activity of today is internet compliant. The commercial www internet of today emerged from the effort of two private networks, the ARPAnet and the NSFnet. But this was only in 1990 at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). Which means the commercial internet of today is only seven years old. In the last few years the internet has grown astronomically to the extend that we in the third world are finding it really difficult keeping up with the pace. The extract from the source claims that the minister said an organization will be set up as early as this fall with cooperation from businesses, academia and government offices for promoting the technology when the Internet is seen to be faced with increasing constraints in achieving higher throughputs of data as well as ensuring data security. The envisaged network is expected to ensure faster and more reliable data transmission, and have more resilience against computer virus attacks and breakdowns. The ministry is hoping Japan will take a lead in development of post-Internet technology and setting global standards, a move that ministry officials believe would help make Japanese companies competitive in the global market for hardware and software using such technology.
Expectedly people have been reacting to this. The reaction ranges from insightful to absurd. I’ll give you a few reaction from some contributors after which I’ll give you mine.
1. “Just make all of the new celphones, ps3's, and consoles work on the new network and you're set... at least in Japan. Since celphones cycle out so quickly in Japan, thanks to their trendsetting ways, switching over to their new faster, more powerful, internet will be a breeze.”
2. “dont think they are referring to IPv6... and i really hope they are not... I hope they come up with a totally new architecture... high time we shifted away from IP”
3. i have been told by an insider that it will be based on pigeons flying with bits of paper that look like this "101010101010010" between people
now this is absurd.
1. “You gotta be kidding me! that means changing the entire world! ow, will my ps3 still work then?”
I forgt to tell u that some were funny.
Wanna know what I think? I think innovation is a good thing. Imagine what life will be today without all tech stuffs we have around today. I cant imagine how our fore fathers lived in the past. So the Jap guys have my vote.
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