Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Thu 30th Apr 2009 23:53 UTC
According to research that's supposed to be published later this year, growing demand for Internet use will soon outstrip the stamina of the infrastructure supporting it, and the Internet will cease to be reliable by 2012. Complete anarchy will ensue, and the world will essentially end along with the Internet we created for it. Perhaps this is what the Mayan prophecies meant?
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In electronic circuit design, for a long time there have been looming walls, meaning that fundamental changes have needed to be made to keep Moore's Law on track. At any given time, you can correctly say that if changes aren't made we'll be hosed in 3-5 years. But a lot of engineers work very hard to come up with solutions, and we keep on shrinking that silicon.
Likewise, if the big network providers make no changes we'll be completely screwed by 2012. But the engineers in those companies can see that coming, too, so the Internet of 2012 will in someways look different from the Internet of 2009, probably just different enough to push the drop-dead date out a few more years.