Internet could collapse in 8 years

The internet could collapse in eight years due to a 'capacity crunch', experts have warned.

Our ever-increasing demand for faster data, streaming services and more powerful computers is pushing our communications structure to the limit and led to a looming web crisis, it's claimed.

Leading engineers, physicists and telecoms companies warn that cables and fibre optics that carry information to people's laptops, tablets and smartphones will soon reach their limit and not be able to take any more data.
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So far, engineers have managed to keep ahead of demand, increasing internet speeds 50-fold in the last decade alone.

But some experts believe that scientific advances have reached their limit and fibre optics can take no more data.

Professor Andrew Ellis, who has co-organised a meeting at London's Royal Society later this month to try to avert the crisis, told the Daily Mail that it would lead to a dramatic increase in costs - and higher bills.

"The deployment to market is about six to eight years behind the research lab - so within eight years that will be it, we can't get any more data in," he said.

"Demand is increasingly catching up. It is growing again and again, and it is harder and harder to keep ahead.
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Not going to happen but network planning is a really interesting subject, what I see happening is this driving the adoption of IPV6 and some of the telecommunication companies asking for handouts to perform work you have already been billed for*.

* = In the UK if you have a landline phone line (essential for the most part as we use ADSL more than Cable) you have to pay line rental to BT even if your phone company is some one else. Part of the £16 per month is supposed to go towards network expansion and improvement this never happens so BT make a huge chunk of change for doing essentially nothing as most of the work Openreach perform is reactive. What also does not help is the fact that BT are notorious for not playing nice with others when it comes to ground work and sharing conduits / access to exchanges. I know of one case where BT where pulling a length of fiber exactly the same way another company wanted to pull but refused access and closed a road down for a week while it did the work retarmacked the road where they had dug it up then demanded the company that also wanted a cable pulling at the same time wait another month before they do it rather than pulling it at the same time or shortly before / after without digging the road up twice.
This is also partly why 3g technology isn't available in parts of the county and the 4g rollout is going badly BT doesn't like people wanting to roll out better fiber to the mobile towers as they wont have control over it and impact on there monopoly in the British market.
 
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The internet will end when the video of Jace on mushrooms streaming like 10 videos at once goes viral, and everybody decides to do the same thing all at once, all in 4k.
 
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Marvin said:
The internet won't "collapse". It's just getting more expensive to add more users. So if you live in a developing country where they're just rolling out internet access, it's going to suck. Your ISP's upstream provider is going to pass on the costs down to you.
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Let's draw a comparison for reference.

>Website predicts the collapse of the Internet due to increasing costs of streaming data and limitations in computer hardware.
>Exact same website in another article predicts that the fibre optic capabilities in computers will reach the speed of light which will dramatically increase their overall efficiency in transmitting data.

It's always a sure sign of clickbait when you write articles directly contradicting your previous ones.
 
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Stratomsk said:
Let's draw a comparison for reference.

>Website predicts the collapse of the Internet due to increasing costs of streaming data and limitations in computer hardware.
>Exact same website in another article predicts that the fibre optic capabilities in computers will reach the speed of light which will dramatically increase their overall efficiency in transmitting data.

It's always a sure sign of clickbait when you write articles directly contradicting your previous ones.
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Never take articles like this seriously. I've been seeing dire predictions of the end of the Internet since the '80s. For instance, on Usenet, it was predicted that it was going to die every few minutes, because of shitposters wasting bandwidth among other things.
 
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Sigyn said:
That would really be great, actually. Think of all the Tumblrtards that'd have to get a real life. All the Loveshies who'd have to join actual real life activities and make friends. This could be a good thing, guys.
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You're talking about losing the Far.ms and Chris Chan fading back into obscurity.
 
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Cuddlebug said:
You're talking about losing the Far.ms and Chris Chan fading back into obscurity.
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If I never had to hear about checking my privilege again, I think it'd be worth it. Unpopular opinion, I know. But hey, maybe Chris will finally take over the world and turn it into IRL CWCville. Nothing's impossible.
 
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