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Is it feasible to rebuild the internet? See below before you answer!?

Here's a yahoo news story: Researchers explore scrapping Internet (link below).

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070413/ap_on_hi_te/re...

What do you think? It seems terribly complicated to me... complicated beyond words.

Update:

Thanks for the answer, Patois, and the suggestion to re-post next week.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    (Make sure you re-post this question and link during the day this weekend so more people see it). There will be attempts to re-build the Internet, some attempts will be related to sincere intentions to improve it, some attempts will certainly be to control it for invasion of privacy and to control information flows. The article used the politically correct phrase, "evolution, not revolution", which suggests to me an initial damage control device in anticipation of a backlash of protest because there is much to lose if the Internet becomes "controlled". The "control" would not be about "porn", either. I know of a parallel Internet, or, at least one existed about ten years ago. They are possible. Surely, the notion of parallel Internets would be less dangerous than "morphing", and eventually eliminating the current Internet. Personally, I believe hackers will always be able to keep the Internet free if there was ever an attempt to "overthrow" it.

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