The Fastest Internet Ever

Say goodbye to slow downloads: Australian scientists develop chip that makes Internet 60 times faster By Holly Otterbein Posted 07.28.2008 at 4:09 pm 1 Comment Faster Internet, Go, Go!: Photo by iStockphoto Sometimes, what futurist Ray Kurzweil calls the “ever-increasing rate of technology” is scary. (Who, exactly, wants to live forever? Or grant robots the same rights as humans?) But when singularity—the theory that technology will improve exponentially until it reaches a state of unprecedented progress—quickens the Internet’s pace by a hundredfold, I will gladly drink Kurzweil’s Kool-Aid. Scientists from the University of Sydney have inadvertently demonstrated this theory by making the Web 60 times faster than current top-notch speeds, and promising to raise that to 100 times in the near future. Information from the Web can... [read full story]