In theory, to unscramble the signal completely you need two things: good computers and, not so easy, a second infinitelylarge surface, this time covered with radio telescopes.
Akamai's big idea is that by rewriting the Internet's basic rules--making some computers smarter and more equal than others--it can let the Net grow infinitelylarge without breaking down.
The bad news is that the papers by Dr Sundrum and Dr Randall suggest that a consequence of all this is that the extra dimensions into which gravity is wandering might be infinitelylarge.
Large numbers of people with those kinds of characteristics, we have found, can be infinitely more powerful than just an executive committee or the kind of task forces that you see set up all the time when people are trying to make some kind of change.