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Web Author Warns Internet Is Dying
More ill conceived predictions pave way for new restricted
forms of internet
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A renowned Russian author has warned that the internet in its
current form may not exist within as little as six years time.
"The world will become bigger again, the feeling
that we share the same planet will disappear and the science will
not be developing as quickly as it’s developing now,"
Dmitry Glukhovsky has told Russia
Today.
Glukhovsky predicted that the network would become
clogged with traffic and may grind to a halt in the near future.
The Russian author shot to fame after his science
fiction novels "Metro 2033" and "Twilight"
became internet phenomena following their free release online.
We have previously warned that the rumors of the
internet's decline have been much exaggerated and used as a pretext
for calls to designate of a new form of the internet known as
Internet
2.
This would be a "clean slate", faster, more streamlined
elite equivalent of the internet available to users who were willing
to pay more for a much improved service. providers may only allow
streaming audio and video on your websites if you were eligible
for Internet 2.
Of course, Internet 2 would be greatly regulated and only "appropriate
content" would be accepted by an FCC or government bureau.
Everything else would be relegated to the "slow lane"
internet, the junkyard as it were.
In tandem with broad data retention legislation currently being
introduced worldwide, such "clean slate" projects may
represent a considerable threat to the freedom of the internet
as we know it. EU directives and US proposals for data retention
may mean that any normal website or blog would have to fall into
line with such new rules and suddenly total web regulation would
become a reality.
The proponents of the various "Internet 2" style projects
all maintain that the internet in it's current form is "dead"
or "dying", citing the problem of providing
more and more bandwidth as it grows. The fact of the matter, however,
is that bandwidth is unlimited, as long as carriers are prepared
to provide it.
Those who have announced the end of the Internet have often cited
the exhaustion of IP addresses, however, there is no limit to
the amount of IP addresses that can be created. Indeed, the Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers organization announced
last year that it had successfully ensured the further
growth of the internet with the initiation of the so called "great
migration" from Internet Protocol version 4 to IPv6.
However, the precedent set by companies such as AT&T, who
have been accused of blocking
traffic in order to preserve bandwidth, and recent
mutterings regarding the possibility of fast
lane deals between carriers and giants such as Google,
do not bode well for the internet as we know it.
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