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"

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If Hannu H. Kari dosn't work for...

[stecoop]

Until Netcraft confirms it I wont believe it. I'll back check in two years at http://www.netcraft.com to verify his findings.

-- a 2006 web odyssey

Re:If Hannu H. Kari dosn't work for...

[nocomment]

no kidding! hehe

the public pain threshhold? WTF is this guy talking about? The internet allows you to sift through the crud pretty quickly to get to what you need. Maybe he meant Orkut will collapse in 2 years?

Re:If Hannu H. Kari dosn't work for...

[Cat_Byte]

Time to start backing up the internet.

Lets do that timewarp!

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Recursive Linking

[jolyonr]

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

But after the internet rapture...

[Anonymous Coward]

...we all get fiber in heaven with no caps.

Just me?

[Strange_Attractor]

When I read the title of this post, I thought it was referring to someone who'd taken as his alias the John Lovitz character from SNL:

On Hershel, on Moishe, on Schlomo...

Says Hannu K. Hari, eight days a year

Re:And for anyone who believes this...

[david duncan scott]

The "other Internet" (the one that the rest of us will be using) won't be protected, won't be trusted, and won't be supported by the Windows people.

You draw your own conclusions as to what that will mean.

That September will finally end?

Kari's prediction on Television in the 60's

[mekkab]

"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."