‘Space Net’ under development
p2pnet news | Applications:- Vint Cerf, Google’s evangelist in chief is, “working on technology for a ’space web’ which would link planets together and allow interplanetary surfing.”.
According to The Scotsman, his plans for the ’solar web’ were revealed in a speech to the Edinburgh International Television Festival.
The project also involves NASA and America’s Jet Propulsion Lab, says the story.
But don’t worry. Cerf’s linkage doesn’t mean we’ll soon see Google advertisements emblazoned in glowing laser letters on the moon.
Not yet, anyhow, because Google has nothing to do with the scheme, the story assures us, going on to quote Google’s Main Man as saying:
“What my colleagues and I would like to do is built a more elaborate networking capability and then standardise the protocols for deep space communication in the same way we standardised protocols on the internet.”
Meanwhile, the Net remains earthbound and, says The Independent, Asia now has the most users – 398.7 million – followed by Europe with 314.8 million and North America with 233.3 million.
“While 1.1 billion people are online globally, 5.5 billion are still waiting to be linked up to the Net,” adds the story.
Also See:
The Scotsman – Internet pioneer prepares for ’space web’ to take off, August 27, 2007
The Independent – Google evangelist unveils his Web vision, August 27, 2007
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