{"id":244,"date":"2009-04-27T16:43:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T16:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2009\/04\/27\/internet-is-getting-crowded\/"},"modified":"2016-10-29T05:49:21","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T05:49:21","slug":"internet-is-getting-crowded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2009\/04\/27\/internet-is-getting-crowded\/","title":{"rendered":"The Internet is getting crowded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s amazing how busy a weekend can get around tax time. Which is a weak way of explaining why the updates have been slow the past few days. I&#8217;ve got a couple more deadlines to work through, then we should be back to regular postings.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, I&#8217;ve been enjoying the amazing speed of my brand new 24&#8243; IMac, which arrived last week. I can&#8217;t believe how much fun its been doing regular things, like surfing the Internet or playing with pictures (when I probably should have been working on my taxes!)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s another wonderful procrastination tool, although I&#8217;m finding that the diversions aren&#8217;t taking as long, which leaves me back with the task at hand far quicker than I&#8217;m used to.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediachannel.org\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/27\/beware-surfers-cyberspace-is-filling-up\/\">this article<\/a> I came across this morning, all this extra speed I&#8217;m now blessed with may be a moot point in just a year or two. A study by a US think tank is predicting that the Internet&#8217;s explosive growth will overwhelm the infrastructure, forcing people to accept slower speeds and limited capacity. This is not a good news scenario, especially for those of us who have come to depend on the Internet to handle our work &#8211; heck our entire life&#8217;s &#8211; activities.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Internet users face regular \u201cbrownouts\u201d that will freeze their computers as capacity runs out in cyberspace, according to research to be published later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Experts predict that consumer demand, already growing at 60 per cent a year, will start to exceed supply from as early as next year because of more people working online and the soaring popularity of bandwidth-hungry websites such as YouTube and services such as the BBC\u2019s iPlayer.<\/p>\n<p>It will initially lead to computers being disrupted and going offline for several minutes at a time. From 2012, however, PCs and laptops are likely to operate at a much reduced speed, rendering the internet an \u201cunreliable toy\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediachannel.org\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/27\/beware-surfers-cyberspace-is-filling-up\/\">Link to full article.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s amazing how busy a weekend can get around tax time. Which is a weak way of explaining why the updates have been slow the past few days. I&#8217;ve got a couple more deadlines to work through, then we should be back to regular postings. In the meantime, I&#8217;ve been enjoying the amazing speed of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p88Hib-3W","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions\/1028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}