Much rumor on the next generation Internet: the Grid, a recent development at CERN, will be "10.000 times faster than a typical broadband connection" (Source) but there are still many questions left: considering recent headlines about German providers (Source 1, Source 2, Source 3), canceling their flatrate customers I wonder how these masses of data that would be stored in the "grid" would be available if your download rate would still be limited. Additionally, storing data in a datacenter somewhere in the grid immediately raises security and privacy questions that wouldn't emerge if you would store your data locally. A discussion about the costs of this new technology (any details?) would also be nice.