WHEN you post a letter to a friend, you stick it in an envelope, slap on an address and stamp and send it on its merry way. But imagine if a postal worker at one of the mail-handling centres were to rip open all the letters sent to the same town, add them together and mix up all the pages, and then send them all onward in a single parcel.
It may sound like a recipe for disaster, but applying this idea to the internet could reduce the bottlenecks that clog up the web, and double the speed of information…
