'The internet will collapse in 2006'

[molcas&e'sdad]

I'm sure Al Gore intentionally created this doomsday scenario when he invented the internet ...

 

[entropybran]

Oh no not "Y2k6!".

bran

 

[rueyeet]

What will happen though, is that more and more people are going to become aware of good computing, security, etc.

Nope...they haven't yet, and I don't see the mass market becoming more knowledgable faster than the rate of increase of viruses and spam.

The study and the article seem to me to be making that prediction based on current trends: i.e., if we don't do more than we're doing today, the amount of crap on web and email will so exceed the useful stuff as to tip the cost/benefit ratio of the Internet towards utter uselessness. Note that the overall conclusion is that we need more proactive action towards making sure this doesn't happen, not that it inescapably WILL happen. Which is pretty much the truth.

 

[Littleodie914]

Didn't you all hear? The Internet catastrophically collapsed in 1996.
A year later, the author even demonstrated the consequences of his prediction.

Haha wow... And that's coming from the guy who invented ethernet! Guess I just don't understand how you'd want to invent and elaborate on something that is so closely tied in with the internet only to predict its downfall...

 

[Hoef]

Can you imagine the energy savings this will create! .... All those routers, switches etc.... I am sure that it will lower our dependency on Saudi oil