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‘The Grid’ is what they call it! The next generation of the internet… Giving you the ability to surf the net at ‘10,000 times the current speed of broadband’!

Could you imagine the possibility of sharing files and communicating online at those speeds? This is where the topic of ‘Holographic Video Conferening’ came up today in the office.

We were sitting here searching the internet with our penchant for constant knowledge when we came across an article discussing ‘Superfast Internet’  written by an author at the Times Online.

 In this article he discussed the possibility of an internet so fast that we would be able to share the largest of files in just seconds, revolutionize gaming from a 64 player standpoint to ten’s of thousands of individuals and not to mention speeds that would make the online conferencing market run like clockwork!

Added to this the possibility of ‘holographic video conferencing’! Could you imagine that? Having a 3-dimensional video conference with thousands of individuals without a flinch in performance (which is sometimes an issue still to this day).

As an individual who loves anything fast and efficient I must say that the idea of this ‘Grid’ sounds like heaven! Take into consideration also that this ‘Grid’ has already been utilised by a number of individuals and may be ready for use by domestic users in the next 2 years!

What do you have to say about this future evolution of the internet?

A great thing happened in our industry the other week. Oprah Winfrey, yes Mrs. Bookclub herself facilitated the largest single online web event in the history of the industry!

Oprah Winfrey hosted A New Earth Web Event which hosted a total of 500,000 participants, encompassing 242Gbps of information flowing through the internet at one time!  An event of this magnitude had never been attempted before! It seems the first event experienced problems for some participants, however, it looks like they have corrected this for the next 8 events scheduled. 

This is one of the single most important events in the history of the industry in so far as proving that web conferencing solutions are now at that point in development to handle such a large subscriber base. Furthermore, it demonstrates the benefits of this industry and solidifies that this technology is an extremely effective way of engaging large audiences online.

The content of Oprah’s online event series discusses Eckhart Tolle’s new book entitled A New Earth.  As stated  on the cover of Eckharts book “awakening to your life’s purpose”. 

It was very interesting to see how they incorporated Skype into this live event.  Watching remote participants ask questions over live audio & video:

We’ll hats off to Oprah…it would not be possible for anyone else to pull together such a large number of people online in a single web event.