How Things Will Change Under IPv6

Da Massive writes "IPv6 Forum leader Latif Ladid provides an insight into the workings of IPv6. He also talks about how peer-to-peer file serving as we know it today will be redundant with the newer protocol." From the article: "Q: What is the most significant benefit that IPv6 offers the world? A: Global connectivity. Currently we have less than 50 percent world-wide Internet penetration, and we have used most of the address space. If you look at the Western world, we have more than 50 percent penetration. In total we have close to a billion people connected to the Internet. So it is a false perception that we have full Internet penetration. We have six billion people on the planet. When the Internet protocol was designed back in 1980 there were 4.3 billion address spaces; it was already insufficient for the population. By 2050 we will be nearly 10 billion people. But there are not only people. There are things. Billions and billions of devices that will service these people."

Comments

Haha...

[NIN1385]

You said penetration.

service?

[Anonymous Coward]

"Billions and billions of devices that will service these people."

huh???

One thing that doesn't work

[Anonymous Coward]

Having to listen to damm public service anoucement asking us to help all the dumb little nigger children we got around here. Like they will ever amount to anything.

No one cares about little niggers running around, and we don't want to give them all of our hard earned money.

Re:One thing that doesn't work

[d3ik]

Yeah, you can use that money to go back to school and learn how to spell 'announcement'. While you're at it you can work on pluralization. It's all a moot point though. I doubt the Arkansas 7-11 you work at would ever pay enough to put one of them (or you) through any type of secondary education.

I've ....

[Anonymous Coward]

Penetrated my thingy into billions and billions of things....

and IPv6 will help me how?

WeenerIP?

Population

[Audacious]

Even though we do have a lot of people on the planet; I seem to recall that the population on the planet actually declined in the last 10 years.

A friend of mine has repeatedly stated (not that that makes it true mind you) that within twenty years the human race will decline dramatically due to robotics taking over every aspect of our lives. Without anything to do, he postulates, man will cease to have any reason to live. Thus, through apathy and despair we will begin dying out.

Personally - I don't think so. But he does have a point. That being: If mankind becomes subservient to robots would robots eventually either absorb mankind into itself or superceed mankind in favor of itself? Basically, would we become the Borg or just die out? We are already on the road to becoming the Borg. Artifical hands, feet, and hearts are just some of the things now done by robotic or (at least electrical/mechanical) items. One doctor is already experimenting on himself by planting electrodes directly into his nerves so he can have a computer store all of his movements. The robot manufacturers overseas already have robots that can wash dishes, vacuum, and even play soccer. We now have computer cpus that can build connections like the human mind builds neuro pathways.

Will we soon see the capability to download an entire human mind into computer circuitry? It is just a matter of size to store everything you know and it may not be long before what we call a soul is disected, cataloged, and possibly stored in a computer.

Of course, in my case, they'd probably download my mind and then have a hardware crash. ;-)