http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7009256501 U.S. Analyst Firm Warns Internet Gridlock By 2010; Estimates Upgrades To Cost $137b Globally Mokena, IL (AHN) - United States-based analyst firm Nemertes Research on Saturday warned over the emerging internet gridlock by 2010 as it further noted that upgrading would cost around $137 billion globally. In a report that was partly funded by the Internet Innovation Alliance (IIA) which campaigns for universal broadband in the United States Nemertes expressed alarm on the alleged "drastic slowdown as the network struggles with the amount of data being carried on it." "We must take the necessary steps to build out network capacity or potentially face internet gridlock that could wreak havoc on internet services," stressed Larry Irving, co-chairman of the IIA in a report by BBC News. The report also predicted that in the next three years, Google and You Tube will surely be adversely affected by the slowdown, making it harder to download files online. "For users, the slowdown could see a return to the bad old days of dial-up. The next Amazon, Google or YouTube might not arise, not from a lack of user demand but because of insufficient infrastructure preventing applications and companies emerging," the report concluded.
Also, when the new millennium bug hits, planes will fall out of the sky, gas pumps won't work, and banks won't be able to give you your money. Buy a generator and lots of bottled water.
We have to find someway to lower our digital footprint. I won't download any p*rn for the next two days. It will be tough, but I know I can do it.
I think this whole internet thing is just a fad, people will have moved on to the next thing by 2010.
The Internet is not a truck that you just dump somewhere... it's a series of tubes! http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/497
Well by December 21, 2012 this whole issue is really irrelevant as the world will be over. So, going 2 years without the Internet won't be too bad - at least I think.
