Japanese scientists are researching technologies that they hope will replace the Internet at some point in the future.
TOKYO - Japan plans to start research on new networking technology that could one day replace the Internet amid its growing quality and security problems, according to the nation’s communications ministry.
U.S. and European researchers already have started similar efforts to rebuild the underlying architecture of the Internet.
Yoshihiro Onishi, assistant director at the Japanese communications ministry, said Japan must follow suit to stay competitive. Post-Internet network technology is expected to become imperative by 2020, he said.
While I don’t think the Internet will ever be replaced as a whole, I agree that there is plenty of room left for improvements, e.g. the creation of networking technology that consumes less energy, technology that prevents spamming and inter-planetary networking technologies.
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