Japanese Researchers Aim to Replace the Internet

Gary writes "Japanese communications minister Yoshihide Suga said Friday that Japan will start research and development on technology for a new generation of network that would replace the Internet, eyeing bringing the technology into commercial use in 2020. The envisaged network is expected to ensure faster and more reliable data transmission, and have more resilience against computer virus attacks and breakdowns."

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Re:Doesn't this already exist?

[MrNaz]

Actually, Japanese and indeed many other eastern civilizations had many of the economics problems of today solved. Some of these problems are so pervasive that people in the west just take for granted that they are fundamental limitations of humankind. Thanks to the west and its fundamentally broken social model upon which its economic and financial systems are based, ancient, long ago solved problems are rearing their ugly heads again.

Perhaps Japan has realized the folly in copying the West and its dizzyingly high but historically fleeting civilizational success and are attempting to reverse the cultural damage done to their society over the last half century or so. Oh wait, we're talking about internet stuff... right, right. Sorry I got a bit carried away there.