Beware surfers: cyberspace is filling up

Thu Apr 30 21:23:39 UTC 2009

Recycled alarmism... now get back to enjoying your bout of swine flu.

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 12:55 PM, J.D. Falk
<jdfalk-lists at cybernothing.org>wrote:

> '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.
>
> It will initially lead to computers being disrupted and going offline for
> several minutes at a time. From 2012, however, PCs and laptops are likely to
> operate at a much reduced speed, rendering the internet an “unreliable
> toy”.'
>
>
> http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article6169488.ece
>
> (I don't even know where to start.)
>
> --
> J.D. Falk
> Return Path Inc
> http://www.returnpath.net/
>
>