The Grid is already in use and will be available to some universities as soon as this fall. So one day seems to be coming pretty quickly. I just don't understand the part of the article about this technology not making it to the rest of us quickly. They have been laying fiber-optic cables for years.
Well of course fibre-optic cables have been in use for years but only at rather rare spots. That's also a reason why - dunno like 90% of the home broadband connections (I read an article about that some while back) are done via DSL which works via normal telephone cables...
Fibre-optics cables mostly can be found in big cities and around (scientific) universities / science labs. So as long as you won't convince the ISPs to dig out thousands of miles of cable, replace it with fibre-optic ones and dump their whole DSL hardware it won't come anytime soon...
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