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John Doyle is worried about the Internet. In the next few years, millions more people will gain access to it, and existing users will place ever higher demands on our digital infrastructure, driven by applications like online movie services and Internet telephony. Doyle predicts that this skyrocketing traffic could cause the Internet to slow to a disastrous crawl, an endless digital gridlock stifling our economies. But Doyle, a professor of control and dynamic systems, electrical engineering, and bioengineering at Caltech, also believes the Internet can be saved. He and his colleagues have created a theory that has revealed some simple yet powerful ways to accelerate the flow of information. Vastly accelerate the flow: Doyle and his colleagues can now blast the entire text of all the books in the library of Congress across the United States in 15 minutes.
Doyle and his coworkers enable computers to use more information about traffic flow, noting how long it takes for their packets to get to their destination. The less traffic, the shorter the time, and with these traffic reports on hand, their computers make much smarter decisions. The result is a string of victories for high-speed Internet communication competitions. In the last face-off in 2006, they managed to send 17 gigabits—about a full-length movie’s worth—each second across the Internet. Doyle smiles as he describes their success, a flash of the athlete’s spirit in his face. “You’re not just proving theorems,” he says. “It beats anything anyone else can do.”
When Banking is free from current corruption the industry will evolve into networking. When that happens investments will pay huge dividends for each improvment in efficency. Think about this please. You have a phone/bank account/credit card/internet connection all in one.
Please see this - it is on the way.