When will it change the way we work?
Not so fast
Gartner Research analyst Roger Fulton said "it's going to be rather longer than everybody would like," in part because companies are currently focused on cutting costs, not on investments.
Sharing vast power and data storage implies risk as well, and Wormser says that while certification authorities will be established and electronic passports issued to users, systems cannot lock out hackers but must work to contain them.
Even projects between well-respected scientific institutes are not immune, since, as he notes: "If you lend your car to a friend he can run it into a wall."
That has not stopped grid technology from plunging into the perilous world of online games, however.
Butterfly.net is said to have up to 300,000 users roaming simultaneously through virtual environments, while the site itself claims it can "support an unlimited number of players within the same game."
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