...that this article is a load of rubbish. Why on earth would an IT site go quoting a technologically-illiterate tabloid newspaper for its source on something as technological as grid computing?

--[a new “grid” system which is 10,000 times faster than broadband connections will replace the Internet.]--

What are you smoking? The connections from CERN to the Tier1 GRID centres will indeed be fast, gigabits fast, but don't expect mere mortals to get that sort of backbone speed on their residential DSL any time soon. Even if they did it wouldn't have anything to do with the GRID, which is a batch distributed computing system not a low-level network protocol.

http://gridcafe.web.cern.ch/gridcafe/index.html

Well, Nick, I like a lot of your reportage but in this case would you mind defining the term 'grid'?

You got 4 of the 5 W's, give or take, but the 'what is it' is not answered.

Right, it'll connect the universities up, but average citizens? Get real. Most fiber optics is dark anyway, meaning that it's not the hardware that's the issue, more the compelling need (or lack thereof) to provide normal citizens with large amounts of bandwidth.

Well without getting into why the 'grid' will not work outside of businesses... Let's just say that you spun this thing in completely new and incorrect directions Nick. This is an application of the Internet, not a replacement for. ALSO, cloud computing, which this is, is nothing new. 

It's all good though. They send out a press release, you guys use it as filler, and they get people reading their website.