For the economic health of the nation, the government would do better to bankroll an optical fibre rollout rather than prop up profligate banks Written by Dave Bailey Computing, 09 Oct 2008 Reading Google evangelist Vint Cerf’s blog the other day, with its description of the “next-generation internet”, I wondered just where he keeps those rose-tinted spectacles, and what kind of crystal ball he uses. Certainly not one of those all-seeing, future-revealing palantirs featured in Lord of the Rings. After reaching the end of Vint’s treatise on Web 3.0, I half expected him to say, “the lion shall lay down with the lamb and we will all live happily ever after.” One of the funnier parts of Vint’s sermon on the mount was this little gem: “A box of washing machine soap will become part of a service as internet-enabled washing machines...
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