[2ndDivisionVet]

Full title: Is the internet on the brink of collapse? The web could reach its limit in just eight years and use all of Britain's power supply by 2035, warn scientists

[GeronL]

wind power is not going to be a good thing for the UK

[Jet Jaguar]

I think the fight last night proved some of this. Boxing.

[Democrat_media]

Obama and his FCC thugs are about to destroy and take over the Internet in 45 days:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3284804/posts
Internet and thought control begins in 45 days!
Center for Individual Freedom

UPDATE: The implementation of Barack Obama’s takeover of the Internet is less than 45 days away. And as Marsha Blackburn says, if Congress does not take action to stop Barack Obama, the government will “control the Internet” in a little over the month.

[Pontiac]

Maybe some new data compression methods?

Nuclear Power.

[Pikachu_Dad]

roflol

[dfwgator]

Looks like they'll need a bigger box.

[smokingfrog]

The prospect of cheap solar panels combined with powerful batteries has been a source of significant anxiety in the utility sector.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

****all of Britain’s power supply could be consumed by internet use. ***

BURN MORE COAL!

[Deagle]

Don’t forget - and the seas will rise by 1 foot, and the Arctic ice cap will melt...and... well you know the crap that is spewed by those that want money...

Anyway, back to the question. The WEB will NOT reach collapse because we, the people trying to keep up, will engineer a way to keep things going. It’s called progress and it is a real negative to the Progressives!

The only fear you should have is that the Progressives win elections and have their way...

[Secret Agent Man]

Well, on the plus side, people will have a lot more time to ignore others face to face.

[familyop]

The Net is choking on JAVA pork, and many big corporate servers are dishing out other big wads of crud. They’ve also gone crazy with higher resolutions for videos.

[Vendome]

Guy is an idiot.

[T-Bird45]

I am certainly no expert and don’t have any statistics immediately at hand. I can observe one salient fact. Corning, a major manufacturer of fiber for transmission cables, started to build a brand new manufacturing facility about a mile from where I lived in the early 2000s. It became so abundantly obvious that there was a huge amount of unused fiber and cable orders fell like a stone. Construction on the new plant was immediately halted and that location today is still just a steel structure standing forlornly on an overgrown site.

The author’s reporting and observations may be UK-centric with no application to the US or world. My observation is clearly just anecdotal. It all is still saying, to me anyway, that this article appears over the top in its gloom and doom.

[cynwoody]

Back in '95, Robert Metcalfe, the inventor of ethernet, predicted that the Internet would suffer a "catastrophic collapse" the following year; he promised to eat his words if it did not.

During his keynote speech at the sixth International World Wide Web Conference in 1997, he took a printed copy of his column that predicted the collapse, put it in a blender with some liquid and then consumed the pulpy mass. This was after he tried to eat his words in the form of a very large cake, but the audience strongly protested.

[Steve0113]

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[Caipirabob]

[ItsOurTimeNow]

[Nervous Tick]

I knew it! It’s those dxmned LOL pictures and videos of cats. I predicted this day would come.

Oh yeah, and all those “if you are really one of us you’ll immediately send this to eleven dozen of your friends” emails. They aren’t helping either.

[M Kehoe]

Good morning.

Didn't Kim Kardasian's ass break the internet a couple of months ago?

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