The Progress of Technology
I would like to know how to speed up the internet ie: data delivery.
I think data delivery is going to progress by leaps and bounds in the near future. The internet has been around for quite some time now and it is time for a change in the way data is delivered. Currently it’s by one packet of information (data) at a time.
After some research I have learned there are a number of ways people are trying to change this method of data delivery. Some of them are:
• Packets
• Capsules
• Holograms and Lasers
• Teleportation
I will give a brief explanation of each one and include the advantages and disadvantages.
The current technology uses packets which are small files of information wrapped by a header and footer with security information on the both sides. These are the destination the packets are being sent to and the source that the packets are coming from.
The advantages are:
Packets are very secure because they can use encryption.
Key exchange algorithms are used to securely exchange a shared secret value between two computers over an unsecured network connection. The computers exchange information that, when processed by the algorithm, produces the shared secret value. A third computer listening on the network and intercepting network packets between the first two computers cannot determine the shared secret value. The shared secret value can then be used as a session key, or to generate a session key, to encrypt the rest of the communications used in the IPsec negotiations. (Technet)
• Small enough to send quickly
The disadvantages are:
• high learning curve
• only sent one packet at a time
Bottom line with packets it is like downloading a two-hour movie in 3 hours with a Fast-Ethernet connection. (change slide)
The near future technology is capsules. These capsules are small programs able to perform customized computations on the user data.
Active networks appear to break many of the architectural rules that conventional wisdom holds inviolate.
“However, we believe that they build on past successes with packet approaches, such as the Internet, and at the same time relax a number of architectural limitations that may now be artifacts of previous generations of hardware and software technology.
In summary, passive network architectures that emphasize packet-based end-to-end communication have served us well. However, as our lead users demonstrate, computation within the network is already happening – and it would be unfortunate if network architects were the last to notice. It is now time to explore new architectural models, such as active networks, that incorporate interposed computation. We believe that such efforts will enable new generations of networks that are highly flexible and accelerate the pace of infrastructure innovation.” (Wetherall)2011
The advantages will be:
• Less time the computer has to process the data
• Routing the network would be less intensive
• Security will be greater and more robust
• It can still uses current technology
The disadvantages are:
• Highly complicated
• One capsule at a time although much less capsules per transmission.
In layman terms it would be like downloading a two hour movie in 3 minutes.
(change slide)
The next step in evolution will be using light for the transmission of data.
We’re talking about Lasers and Holograms in the not too distant future.
Three-dimensional optical memory with photorefractive materials is discussed for ultra-high density/capacity memory exceeding the classical limit of a conventional optical recording system. Bit data are recorded as highly localized refractive index variations in three-dimensional volume using a focused laser beam. We show recording and reading results using a multilayered recording medium with a photoisomerization polymer and transparent films. Two-photon recording is also demonstrated. We also discuss the spherical aberration corrections using a volume holographic device, and compact confocal configuration using a semiconductor laser. (Nakano)2011
The obvious advantages are going to be:
• Speed
• Much less components
• Quality of the data transmissions
• Data will be streamlined forgoing “one piece at a time”
The disadvantages are going to be:
• Cost
• Distance
• Current technology of course doesn’t support it so a whole new way of accessing the Network will have to be created
• And security I’m still not too sure of because if there is a way to make it secure I’m sure a hacker can still break the security measures.
To put it in a nutshell it will be like downloading a two hour move in 3 seconds.
(change slide)
The future is going to be Teleportation which is taking data in whole chunks doing without “one piece at a time” delivery of data.
Teleportation is going to revolutionize data delivery. Experiments have already been concluded which proves that it is possible.
In the past, such teleportation experiments were either slow, or there was information loss in the process. This new experiment procedure eliminated both of those concerns; the team transported a "cat"--Schrödinger's cat to be exact. No, it wasn't a real cat, but instead were wave packets of light which represented Schrödinger's cat, a paradox in which something has two states at the same time (the cat is both living and dead)--a condition called quantum superposition. Quantum computers work (or will work) by storing data as quibits which can represent one and zero at the same time; this would allow them to solve multiple problems simultaneously. (Mulroy)2011
The advantages will be numerous:
• Speed – Almost instantly
• Quality
• Security
• Distance
However the disadvantages will be just as numerous:
• Cost for one
• Infrastructure - No current Network could possibly handle this technology
Imagine being able to download a two hour movie in a fraction of a second (blink of an eye).

These are my thoughts on how data delivery will progress with the current technology and future technology. My research proves that there are people that feel the same way and are actually doing something about it. In the next 4 light years some of us or our children are going to see technology change by leaps and bounds.

Harkins, By Naganand Doraswamy and Dan. "IPSec Implementation." Microsoft Technet. 01 11 2011 .
Mulroy, James. "Quantum Teleportation Is a Reality." PCWorld 16 4 2011: 1-2.
Nakano, Masaharu. "Three-dimensional patterned media for ultrahigh-denisity optical memory." American Institute of physics (2004): 4.
Technet, Microsoft. "Descriptions of the IPsec Algorithms and Methods." 20 Jan 2009. Microsoft Technet. 01 11 2011 .
Wetherall, David L. Tennenhouse and David J.