I just found this on the internet:

Coming soon: superfast internet

The very clever people at Cern have invented something much faster than the internet - or rather, some technology that is much faster than the protocols used by the WWW.  It uses dedicated fibre optic cables and modern switching hardware, to avoid the bottlenecks of copper cables.

It would be amazing if this stuff made its way into the normal world, but with ISPs so concerned with short-term profits, and after chronic under-investment in the internet infrastructure in this country, I'll believe it when I see it.

As ever, the universities are there first:

Britain alone has 8,000 servers on the grid system – so that any
student or academic will theoretically be able to hook up to the grid rather
than the internet from this autumn.

Why am I leaving university?!  I should get a job as a lecturer...