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."

Comments

the Internet is not the WWW

[Anonymous Coward]

Any article that confuses the Internet with the world wide web can't be taken seriously.

WWW != Internet

[lazybeam]

I thought that the HTTP protocol was going to die? But no, they are talking about the Internet switches and routers being overloaded. And it will only get worse as more people use broadband - that means ISPs will have to upgrade their equipment! (shock! horror!) The WWW is going to break with all the """ codes in the article, too.

Gelsinger's solution is to build a new network over the current Internet,

The WWW is a network over the current Internet... Oh well

Re:Well...

[KilobyteKnight]

Don't bother to RTFA this time, the article's about as low on info as the summary.

Complete lack of technical savvy is what I've come to expect from Forbes. They just don't get the SCO thing either. And in this article, they interchangably use the terms "World Wide Web" and "internet". Forbes is obviously the magazine for pointy haired bosses, I can't imagine anyone else taking it seriously.