the sky is falling....

So I am a bit bored and instead of my normal posts I thought I'd do the "blogger" thing of talking about someone elses post. A recent think tank study is showing that that the internet may collapse in a traffic-jam by 2012 and that the first signs of this may start appearing next year in 2010. The internet for all its "distributed-ness" still basically bottlenecks at a few backbone points. The funny thing is that I have been starting to see this over the last year. I used to be able to use most American sites very easily, but recently I have noticed some sites just not responding, but the Japanese version will work nicely. I know there are a lot of "doom" stories going around and a lot of scare tactics and FUD, but this one might actually be not so far off the mark... How many people (myself included) would be able to cope if the internet went down?