[114086] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Beware surfers: cyberspace is filling up
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Schwimer)
Thu Apr 30 17:24:00 2009
In-Reply-To: <49FA0240.7030107@cybernothing.org>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:23:39 -0700
From: Greg Schwimer <gschwim@gmail.com>
To: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk-lists@cybernothing.org>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Recycled alarmism... now get back to enjoying your bout of swine flu.
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 12:55 PM, J.D. Falk
<jdfalk-lists@cybernothing.org>wrote:
> 'Experts predict that consumer demand, already growing at 60 per cent a
> year, will start to exceed supply from as early as next year because of m=
ore
> people working online and the soaring popularity of bandwidth-hungry
> websites such as YouTube and services such as the BBC=92s iPlayer.
>
> It will initially lead to computers being disrupted and going offline for
> several minutes at a time. From 2012, however, PCs and laptops are likely=
to
> operate at a much reduced speed, rendering the internet an =93unreliable
> toy=94.'
>
>
> http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article=
6169488.ece
>
> (I don't even know where to start.)
>
> --
> J.D. Falk
> Return Path Inc
> http://www.returnpath.net/
>
>
