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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Of course...As people see the Internet doesn't work anymore, they will stop using it, and it will work again 
Seriously, it's only a matter of ISPs limiting bandwidth so that all users can access the Internet while they upgrade their infrastructure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Doomsday_prediction
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_calendar
http://survive2012.com/
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Interesting ideas. Two weeks ago, my internet connection was sporadically going down. At first I was sad, then I got angry because I could not do my work (access svn server, reading papers, etc). It was a pain.
But then I kind of "got used" to it... Instead of working from home, I went to my office. I spent some time reading a book I wanted to read for long. Is that a bad thing? Is everybody dies, the internet collapsing? I don't think so. People want more and more bandwidth. But if one day it saturates, then a balance will rise between users tired of this unreliability and others who depends more on it.
Even though we add 36k modems, we still did a lot of things with the internet. I'm pretty sure it wont collapse