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Hannu H. Kari Gives The Internet 2 More Years
erick99 writes "Dr. Hannu Kari says the Internet will will collapse in 2006 as reported in an article on ARS Technica. Yes, this is the same Dr. Kari who has predicted doom before, but it is still an entertaining read and there is more than a grain of truth in his reasoning." Reader Titney writes adds a couple of excerpts from an article on NewsRoom Finland: "The entire system will crumble to bits as the sheer bulk of rubbish circling around in the net exceeds the public pain threshold. ... When the internet is no longer operational for business purposes, one has to time warp back 10 to 20 years and make do without information networks"
Until Netcraft confirms it I wont believe it. I'll back check in two years at http://www.netcraft.com to verify his findings.
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The entire system will crumble to bits as the sheer bulk of rubbish circling around in the net exceeds the public pain threshold. ...
Yeah, but when that happens we'll more likely timewarp back fifty or one hundred years. Spammers, virus copiers and script kiddies will simply be hunted down for sport and tortured on live TV. The penalty for being an idiot on the internet will be public beheading.
I'm begining to look forward to 2006 now.
I've always wondered whether a story that mentions Slashdot in the subject would bring on a recurisve slashdotting that would result in the ultimate destruction of the internet.
Well, it's worth a try anyway
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... Imminent death of the net predicted. Film at Eleven.
I predict that within one year, someone smart enough to know better will predict the demise of the Net within 2 years. Can I have my "Professional Futurologist" badge now?
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Then Kari added, "If the Internet doesn't die on its own in two more years, I'm gonna shoot it myself." He then went on to suggest that BSD is dying, that flying cars are a decade away and that Longhorn will be released by 2007.
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Cool, most of us will still be around.. most of the AOLuser won't though! (C'mon remember, that used to be fun, lets bash AOL)
This is what happens when you use a Mac (Apple has been dying for years) with a BSD-dying-for-years-based OS and live in a country where it goes dark for months on end. It infects your thinking. You start watching film noir, dressing in black and predicting the death of everything from the Internet to your neighbor's dog.
Lighten up already. If the Internet takes as long to die as either Apple or BSD, we're safe well into the next generation or two.
-Charles
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I think that he meant won't be infected by Windows people.
What is this "Ying" of which you speak?
Is it at all related to the concept of Yin, the traditional counterpart and complement to Yang?
Please, stick to what you know, or you tend to look asinine.
"Television programming will become so bogged down with advertisements and pandering to the lowest common denominator that it will collapse under its own weight in bloat, and we will go back to the telegrammophone."
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
is just a good low level format and complete reinstall...
that means that soon the only place to find any info will be slashdot...
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