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Intel Predicts Death Of WWW
LostCluster writes "Forbes is running a report saying that Intel's CTO claims that the WWW is 'running up on some architectural limitations' that will eventually cause its downfall. He's pushing a project called PlanetLab that has Princeton, Cambridge, Hewlett-Packard and AT&T on board, but Cisco is notably absent from that team."
Is he also, by any chance, suggesting a solution: buy more, newever, faster Intel chips!?
Simpy
... it has already happened!?
"The Internet will end when 1 million slashdotters click this link"
WWW may be dying, but repeating old stories is forever
I'd love to see how much of the nets resources are taken up by spam mail, viruses, worms, and the like. I would imagine (although I am totally uneducated in the arena of 'tech') that if these problems were wrapped up for good, a whole lot of stress would be removed from the Internets shoulders.
I'm also cynical enough to predict that intel are saying;
"The net is dying... AND WE HAVE THE SOLUTION! SIGN UP NOW FOR ONLY $5.99 TO GET A STARTER PACK"
Dupe, Dupe, Dupe, Dupe of URL
Dupe of URL.
Dupe of URL.
Mea navis aericumbens anguillis abundat
Perhaps the internet will be killed by the fact that, with constant breeding of duplicated news stories, one will eventually reach critical mass and overwhelm all other information.
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered the Internet community when IDC confirmed that the Internet market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that the Internet has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. the Internet is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin [amdest.com] to predict the Internet's future. The hand writing is on the wall: the Internet faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for the Internet because the Internet is dying. Things are looking very bad for the Internet. As many of us are already aware, the Internet continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
All major surveys show that the Internet has steadily declined in market share. the Internet is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If the Internet is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. the Internet continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, the Internet is dead.
Fact: the Internet is dying
Well god bless them. I remember the day vividly when my shiney new Pentium 3 arrived, and i was finally able to browse the internet.
And why hardware limitation exactly are they refering to; heat from your cpu exhaust instantly melting through your patch cable?
-Chris
--an unbreakable toy is useful for breaking other toys--
I looked at the article and it had..
:-O
"Beware of the End of the World (Wide Web), " Says Intel
Clearly the " the start of the internet corruption.
On a more serious note, the news story doesn't actually tell you anything except use Intel stuff.
Has he linked his project to the War on Terror(TM)? If not, he won't stand a chance of getting any funding or attention. The virus protection scam comes close, but he needs to throw in a little more doom and gloom...
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The WWW will eventually die, along with other common Internet technologies!
PlanetLab? Not RTFA, I suppose that's to make a new planet for us?
Thanks, Intel!
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
Pentel, the world's leading provider of 0.5mm mechanical pencils has predicted the World Wide Web cannot continue to function at its present level for much longer. Pentel is offering an alternative, called WSD, or Writing Stuff Down, that is virtually immune to scaling problems currently plaguing the Web. Industry experts have been slow to respond to this proposal but their responses are expected any day now, via another new technology called the Post Office.
A little piece of the WWW dies every day. But after it has spent it's 12 hours on the front page of /. it will be back. Don't worry, the death is only temporary...
As "Erm, vaguely, something, some day"?!
An while they are at it, how about defining the out-of-context "collapse" and "some architectural limitations" for this article to have any meaning whatsoever?
OMG. Aren't we all just stunned by the writer's clarity, precision and thorough understanding of all things technical...
If there's an "anti-Pulitzer", a prize for the worst misachievements in journalism, Forbes&FinancialWire may just have given us a very promising "Candidate of the Year".
1) Flying cars only 10 years away (for the last 60 years).
2) Y2K will end life as we know it.
3) WWW now officially dead. Close your browser.
I guess that sums it up. Forgive me if I don't hold my breath.
"No support for quote marks", says Forbes
"The WWW has never shown that it can consistantly produce the quotation marks we need
when we need, and for this reason it needs to go back to the drawing board", said an unnamed source with the Forbes web design team.
Can't Al Gore do anything right? No wonder he is so pissed off now.