LIKE all good ideas, the Net has already spawned a sequel called, unsurprisingly, Internet II. This involves 34 universities in the US building an even faster version of what we have now. For the low-down see: http://www.ucop.edu/irc/projects/Internet-II-Project.html.
Multimedia libraries, online education and virtual shuttle missions are all promised by NASA on its site, which details what will be possible with a faster network. For more see the pages at: http://iita.ivv.nasa.gov/.
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