The Grid is bad news (from my sources). The infrastructure was designed for the establishment. Say goodbye to net neutrality, now the corporations and government will get priority packet delivery. Have money? Have super speed! Peasant? High speed light.

Say goodbye to unanimity too, you must receive a licensed tracking number to even get on. Say goodbye to free speech too, as you can't create your own web pages unless you are given an 'electronic certificate' to put it online. The infrastructure will disallow new pages.

The plan to make you take this new pill is to no longer upgrade the internet backbone servers (and slow them out). They'll run both in parallel for X period and slow the internet down as much as they can (and they CAN do a great job as a good portion of the backbone servers are US military from what I've been told...I haven't bothered to confirm this though). They will also avoid fixing dead servers.

All my IT friends are very unhappy with the deliberate control mechanisms and are working on personal darknet contingency plans (wireless internet alternative). They've said to me that the internet could have its speed match 'the grid' or 'internet 2' if the technology was applied (network upgrade). Of course, this would still mean that the powers that be couldn't control it as easily.

Who knows, I could be a little jaded with current government performance and those strange, lurking, unoccupied prisons.



-NIM