I have seen various people predicting a major overloading of the
Internet coming. Demand is growing very rapidly, and nobody is
building the infrastructure fast enough to handle it.
Initially the US government, under the leader****p of forward thinking
politicians like Al Gore funded the "information super highway" which
created the backbones to make today's Internet possible.
It has been spectacularly successful, and could fail from its own
success and overly rapid growth.
To keep this golden goose alaying we need major funding for converting
the whole thing to fibre, to increase bandwidth, to make various
technological changes, to make it less susceptible to spam, DOS,
viruses, worms and terrorism.
The obvious way to raise this money is with taxes. I think it is
reasonable for North America, Australia and Europe to fund this and
not worry about the impoverished countries contributing.
Copper has become a semiprecious metal. Thieves break into homes just
to steal the copper. This may actually spur the conversion to fibre
for communications. All we need now is a way of delivering electric
power without copper or in ways that make it very hard to get at.
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Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
The Java Glossary
http://mindprod.com
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