Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 9:54 am
It enables the entire printed collection of the Library of Congress to be downloaded in just over one second; every man, woman and child in China to make a video call, simultaneously; and every motion picture ever created to be streamed in less than four minutes.
Well, just because the routers can route all the traffic in the world doesn't mean there's pipes to carry it.GORDON wrote:That can't be true, because I have been hearing for at least 10 years that the "internet" will reach capacity within a year, 18 months on the outside.
Just making a point, like the scientific paper from the 1800's that said world food production would peak with 20 years and we were all gonna die.TheCatt wrote:Well, just because the routers can route all the traffic in the world doesn't mean there's pipes to carry it.GORDON wrote:That can't be true, because I have been hearing for at least 10 years that the "internet" will reach capacity within a year, 18 months on the outside.