Google-net coming! Google ISP with 1Gbps Vol: Skynet is almost here.

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[h4]Google launching 1Gbps ISP service to select markets at 'competitive prices'[/h4]
By Nilay Patel posted Feb 10th 2010 11:54AM


Google's always tiptoed around directly providing internet access to consumers with things like free airport WiFi and the free WiFi networkit runs in Mountain View, but today the company announced that it'sgetting in the game for real with the launch of a fiber-based ISPservice that'll offer 1Gbps speeds at "competitive prices" to selectmarkets. The idea is to provide next-gen access to between 50,000 and500,000 people and basically see what happens -- and, as you'd expect,the new network will be a poster child for Google's pro-net-neutralityefforts. Sounds good to us, but we've all got a ways to go before EricSchmidt comes over with the lightpipe -- Google's just now asking for"interested communities" to apply, and launch markets will be announcedlater this year. Video after the break.

P.S.- Remember when Google bought all that fiberback in like 2005 and sparked all those rumors of a "GoogleNet"? It'sprobably unrelated, but at least there's a name to kick around.

 

[black racer x]

Uncapped source + 1Gbps =

 

[proper english]

 1gbps 

 

[agentarenas]

I dont know how I feel about this... Something gives me the feeling google would be monitoring what you download. What good is all that speed if you can't dl anything?

 

[soltheman]

Google is beginning to grow akin to Big Brother.

Word to George Orwell.

 

[kyourt]

Originally Posted by AgentArenas

I dont know how I feel about this... Something gives me the feeling google would be monitoring what you download. What good is all that speed if you can't dl anything?

Monitoring what I download? I live in Canada, I don't think anything is illegal here.

 

[jayt206]

wow 1gps, hope the Beta will be available in Seattle. While i'm sure connection speeds will likely be well under that speed they will be much better than what's currently offerred.   Oh and why are so many people always worried about Google's so called monitoring system? If the higher ups really want to track you down it does not matter what ISP service you are using.

 

[DownByLaw]

That speed reminds me of something that still boggles me to this day.

 

[b smooth 202]

Originally Posted by FIRST B0RN

That speed reminds me of something that still boggles me to this day.

at this country

 

[soltheman]

Originally Posted by jayt206

wow 1gps, hope the Beta will be available in Seattle. While i'm sure connection speeds will likely be well under that speed they will be much better than what's currently offerred.   Oh and why are so many people always worried about Google's so called monitoring system? If the higher ups really want to track you down it does not matter what ISP service you are using.

That's true, but net neutrality would place a virtual monopoly on different kinds of web services.

If net neutrality was allowed (google is pro net neutrality,) you could have your access to things like photobucket, *chans, tube, or any "undesirable" sites limited. If not completely removed.

While they can look at what you're doing, as long as it's not illegal, they can't stop you. Net neutrality could take away that freedom.

 

[oh you mad]

Originally Posted by FIRST B0RN

That speed reminds me of something that still boggles me to this day.

In yo face Korea

 

[j paycheck]

Originally Posted by AgentArenas

I dont know how I feel about this... Something gives me the feeling google would be monitoring what you download. What good is all that speed if you can't dl anything?

^This.  But I'm sure it's already happening to some extent with whatever ISP you might be using. 

However, I just don't feel comfortable voluntarily giving one company all my information in exchange for a service.  I know it might not seem like a big deal or what exactly are you giving... but when you add them up, they will know more about you then you know about yourself.  No conspiracy thoerist here... I'm just saying, I already feel weird having gigs of email in my Gmail (which I try my best to monitor).  Even if they aren't using it for "evil" but they are making a ton of money and the marketing (ads) are being more and more customized to fit you... who know's how a search tool company has become so dominant and what the ultimate goal is...

Gmail - Tell them who you exchange messages with, private info (if you use it for business and personal use), etc
Chat - conversation
Buzz - Now you tell them your status, who you exchange messages with daily, pictures, websites that interest you
Maps - Tell them where you go, where you at, where you been
Google Voice services -
Search -
Google browser
Google O/S
Google phone(s)
Google ISP

Sh... they even use Google in school, with educator.

Convenient at times but at what cost, all these things intertwine and if you are logged into one service, you usually are automatically identified in the other.  I'm just saying... besides I'm sure it's been said.  Again, not crazy, I use these services

but just sharing

 

[soltheman]

s my d germany and most of the netherlands.

 

[general johnson]

Google just may become Skynet at some point, if not already.

We don't really think about it, but the AI that Google possesses is insane.  Add to that you use it for most of your searches, your email, to read books, etc., so it has a wealth of information on individual and group behavior.

Google even knows what kind of pr0n you like...


On another note, humans are developing Robots that are able to break the "Uncanny Valley"

The uncanny valley is a hypothesis regarding the field of robotics.[sup][1][/sup] The theory holds that when robots and other facsimiles of humans look and act almost like actual humans, it causes a response of revulsionamong human observers. The "valley" in question is a dip in a proposedgraph of the positivity of human reaction as a function of a robot'slifelikeness.
in the hopes of introducing them as part of our everyday lives. Adults are reluctant to accept robots, but just as old people are slow to accept computers and young people live on them, imagine a day when the wall we have put up to the "Terminator Scenario" is broken by kids who have no fear of autonomous, non human beings, living among them.

Is the rise of the robots an inevitability, the next step in evolution?

It's estimated that by 2015, robotics and human robot interaction will be a multi-billion dollar industry. That means we're not talking about the drones that the military uses, but something more like this...


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When coupled with the article "Why The Future Doesn't Need Us" by Bill Joy co-founder of Sun Microsystems http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html

summary: http://www.nutball.com/joy/cjeremyp2/summary1.html

the future does not look human friendly.

 

[dabossofbosses]

      now what south korea?

 

[thehealthinspector]

Originally Posted by soltheman

Google is beginning to grow akin to Big Brother.

Word to George Orwell.

theyve been big brother ever since their introduction of GMAIL which kept people automatically logged into their accounts whenever they searched google automatically keeping track of everything theyve ever searched

 

[championedition]

the only reason we're behind is cause WE HAVE SO MUCH STUFF. everything we use in the US damn near uses the internet.
south korea is like... 92% rural land with cats farming when the sun comes up.

ive seen homeless with laptops jerkin they murfin to porn on the streets in LA. right under the 10 freeway when you coming up broadway.

thats why we so slow. its hella internet traffic too. it slows down.

 

[mastamind89]

Google will take over the world

 

[nkeair]

Originally Posted by ChampionEdition

the only reason we're behind is cause WE HAVE SO MUCH STUFF. everything we use in the US damn near uses the internet.
south korea is like... 92% rural land with cats farming when the sun comes up.

thats why we so slow. its hella internet traffic too. it slows down.

yeah thats what i was thinking
and i know this google thing sounds ridiculously fast, but they are targeting thousands of homes, so how fast can 1 gig/s be if theres thousands of people sharing it

GOOGLE NEEDS TO ENTER THE PHONE SERVICE DEPARTMENT AND GIVE US SOME CHEAP MONTHLY PLANS, ATT/VERIZON ARE THINNING OUT MY WALLET

 

[charliecontacto]

If this comes to NY with reasonable prices...... VanDam TimeCOPPED!

 

 

[black racer x]

Originally Posted by ChampionEdition

the only reason we're behind is cause WE HAVE SO MUCH STUFF. everything we use in the US damn near uses the internet.
south korea is like... 92% rural land with cats farming when the sun comes up.

ive seen homeless with laptops jerkin they murfin to porn on the streets in LA. right under the 10 freeway when you coming up broadway.

thats why we so slow. its hella internet traffic too. it slows down.

Explain Japan?

Today, Japan’s blistering broadband growth continues. The most recentreport from Japan’s MPHPT, the national telecom regulator, shows thatin the year ending June 2004, Japan gained 5.2 million new DSL, cablemodem and FTTH customers, for 15.6 million total customers. Today100Mbps FTTH is Japan’s fastest growing service–with 1.4 millioncustomers in June 2004–and Japan’s DSL typically runs at ten times USrates. In raw numbers, Japan has less than half as many people as theUS (126 million vs. 275 million), yet it has six broadband customersfor every ten in the U.S. (14 million vs. 27 million).

 

[mr monday niight]

No thanks

them dudes are in bed with the government..same reason i don't use google chrome.

 

[atlien seeko]

I been saying it... Google is about to surpass Microsoft.

 

[sn00pee]

Its not the traffic, its the distance.
Look at how small japan and korea are.
They can lay wire down around one block and cover THOUSANDS of people.
In America, one block may be 40-50 people, TOPS.

 

[metallicnitro]

Originally Posted by soltheman

Originally Posted by jayt206

wow 1gps, hope the Beta will be available in Seattle. While i'm sure connection speeds will likely be well under that speed they will be much better than what's currently offerred.   Oh and why are so many people always worried about Google's so called monitoring system? If the higher ups really want to track you down it does not matter what ISP service you are using.

That's true, but net neutrality would place a virtual monopoly on different kinds of web services.

If net neutrality was allowed (google is pro net neutrality,) you could have your access to things like photobucket, *chans, tube, or any "undesirable" sites limited. If not completely removed.

While they can look at what you're doing, as long as it's not illegal, they can't stop you. Net neutrality could take away that freedom.

WRONG WRONG WRONG
Net Neutrality would keep the internet NEUTRAL. Meaning that an ISP can't limit or restrict access to any website. We currently have Net Neutrality. If we were to do away with it, your ISP could start limiting access to sites that don't have contracts with them. Or if you want access to certain sites, you would have to pay more. This is what it your ISP could do if there was no net neutrality;