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<p class="MsoNormal">That’s just humans in general, and it certainly isn’t limited to our outlook on the future of the internet. Big advancements will always take us by surprise because our lizard brains have a hard time comprehending exponential growth. Someone
please stop me here before I get on my Battery-EV soapbox. :D<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Chris<span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Brush Script MT";color:#44546A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> NANOG <nanog-bounces+chris.wright=commnetbroadband.com@nanog.org>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Tom Beecher<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, August 10, 2022 9:25 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Christopher Wolff <chris@vergeinternet.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> NANOG <nanog@nanog.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: IoT - The end of the internet<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It always amazes me how an industry that has , since its inception, been constantly solving new problems to make things work, always finds a way to assume the next problem will be unsolvable. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 10:23 PM Christopher Wolff <<a href="mailto:chris@vergeinternet.com">chris@vergeinternet.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Hi folks,<br>
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Has anyone proposed that the adoption of billions of IoT devices will ultimately ‘break’ the Internet?
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It’s not a rhetorical question I promise, just looking for a journal or other scholarly article that implies that the Internet is doomed.<br>
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