Could this be for real?

One has to wonder whether this is all just a pipe dream, the way jet-packs and flying cars were in decades past, but I found an article through my friend's blog that claims we may soon have holographic communication and virtually instant downloading through something called "the grid," which makes the Internet look like analog mail. Sound too good to be true? Yeah, it probably is. But wouldn't it be awesome if it was?

Maybe I'll have to change "the Second Web," the superfast cerebral internet in the cyberpunk novel I'm working on, to "the grid."