Beware surfers: cyberspace is filling up - Times OnlineWell, you' l know if t e inte ne is fi ing u wh n Rust sky sta ts dr pp letters.. .Internet users face regular “brownouts” that will freeze their computers as capacity runs out in cyberspace, according to research to be published later this year.
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 more people working online and the soaring popularity of bandwidth-hungry websites such as YouTube and services such as the BBC’s iPlayer.
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Back when the world was young and the Intarwebs was brand new, 1995 or thereabouts, Jerry Pournelle made a prediction that I think is at least as important as Moore's law.
"If, in the next two years, they double the available bandwidth of the Internet we'll still end up further behind than we are now."
otpu
Posted by otpu | April 30, 2009 4:05 PM
Posted on April 30, 2009 16:05