Internet an "Unreliable Toy" by 2012

[exfileme]

Researchers are saying that by 2012, desktops and laptops will perform like a jogger running through quicksand, rendering the Internet as an "unreliable toy."

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[akoegle]

DOOOOOOMMMMMMM

 

[kyeana]

Its just like futurama predicted! We have been waiting for 7 years and have finally connected to the internet!

But seriously, with the internet being such a crucial part of life now a days, do you really think this will happen? Even if what we know as the internet today doesn't work in 2012, they will have devolved something new to take over and accomplish the task.

 

[talys]

In 2012....

...Linux will be used in 95% of all desktops
...AltaVista will rise from the ashes and execute a hostile takeover of Google
...The Pirate Party will gain a majority of seats in the Sweedish parliament
...The Bill of Rights will mandate free Healthcare ...and free iPods
...Somali Pirates will take down a US Carrier using beebee guns
...Researchers will discover the X-Gene and figure out how to give us all the mutant abilities
...Sarah Palin will be President

Oh yes, and the Internet will become an unreliable toy

 

[deminicus]

[citation][nom]talys[/nom]In 2012.......Linux will be used in 95% of all desktops...AltaVista will rise from the ashes and execute a hostile takeover of Google...The Pirate Party will gain a majority of seats in the Sweedish parliament...The Bill of Rights will mandate free Healthcare ...and free iPods...Somali Pirates will take down a US Carrier using beebee guns...Researchers will discover the X-Gene and figure out how to give us all the mutant abilities...Sarah Palin will be PresidentOh yes, and the Internet will become an unreliable toy[/citation]


yes yes, but will it blend?

 

[vgdarkstar]

I call total BS on this, the servers and backbones they talk about are constantly evolving, handling more IOPS, higher bandwidths, 10Gb fiber just for server to server connections are becoming more prevalent.

Demand increases exponentially, and so does capacity.

 

[Guest]

I believe that those in power don't like the fact that their lies are being exposed and then quickly spread like wildfire... Bad internet, BAD!!!

So yeah, I suppose that this means that ISPs, unlike banks, fast-food restaurants, etc... apparently bought all of their IT infrastructure up-front with the idea of never upgrading or replacing their hardware to meet business growth... Uh huh, sure..... A lot can be done in 3 years, and we have the good old US government to print up more money for them if they can't foot the bill...

 

[hakesterman]

I highly doubt the internet will be unreliable by 2012, we have a better chance of being killed by hostile Aliens. By 2012 are internet download speeds will be 8 times faster than they are now, Comcast already has 60 Megs per second download speeds available, by the time 2012 hits midnight will be seeing probably 100 to 150 megs a second download capabilitys. I would say just the oppisite about 2012, by
then will just be getting started.

 

[kersoz2003]

I don't agree with the ideas argued here.Because behind the technology there is money.If there is money there is always new technology.ıf there is not money so we don't need to worry about over weight on the data over the net.So this tought is as improbable as the old Mayans'.

 

[kersoz2003]

I don't agree with the ideas argued here.Because behind the technology there is money.If there is money there is always new technology.ıf there is not money so we don't need to worry about over weight on the data over the net.So this tought is as improbable as the old Mayans'.

 

[Guest]

So the current internet infrastructure will be incapable of supporting the level of network traffic required in three years time?
I don't want to be cynical about Nemertes Research, as egghead geeks go they are probably amongst the best, but two thoughts occur here
1) The internet infrastructure is constantly evolving. When, in it's entire, short, history has the internet infrastructure existing on a given year ever been capable of sustaining the network traffic that it's been running three years later?
2) Dumb name. Really

on a side note the US DOD funded the internet which, if it was invented by any one person, was invented by Vinton Cerf. Berners-Lee came up with HTML.

 

[kamkal]

What stupid crap.

The internet backbone will be upgraded by that time stupid a**!

 

[city_zen]

This is *exactly* what the Mayas and Nostradamus had been predicting for 2012 all along

 

[demonhorde665]

"By 2012, desktops and laptops will perform like a jogger running through quicksand, rendering the Internet as an "unreliable toy." The random "time out" sessions experienced by many Internet users today will have evolved into day-long traffic jams by then."


what a moron in 2012 my destop will be just as speedy as ever , i will still play games quite easily just not online and the inter net will move like a jogger in quick sand ... but you know what you can have a computer that is not hooked to the web at all and web its speed won't be affected in the least, the comptuer it's self will still be quite fast.

Don't you hate it when "experts" word things so in acurrately ???

 

[aznguy0028]

alrite...i'm making a bet with everyone.

if the mayan prophecy does come true. i will buy everyone who betted against me an i7 computer with the latest graphics card.

if the prophecy doesn't happen, you all owe me 20$ each 😀

 

[demonhorde665]

p.s. given that i agree with every one here and call BS on these guysfirst off they made massive inacurracies in the statment to begin with as if intert traffic is all that counts on a comps speed.secondly they are assuming teh itnernet is soem ind of "new"buisness model that doesnt grow like the rest of teh world's buisness models

 

[Pyroflea]

So the internet is gonna collapse...? Why is it that I find this hard to believe 😛

 

[demonhorde665]

[citation][nom]aznguy0028[/nom]alrite...i'm making a bet with everyone.if the mayan prophecy does come true. i will buy everyone who betted against me an i7 computer with the latest graphics card.if the prophecy doesn't happen, you all owe me 20$ each[/citation]



lol nah not gonna take that bet ... 😛 but nice joke

 

[Pyroflea]

This is just like Y2K. For some completely irrational reason, people fear the apocalypse. I find this humorous. ^-^

 

[stryk55]

OH NOES, I CANT LOSE MY INTERWEBS LOL...