Energy Crisis
Robert X. Cringely — “My point here is that we’re entering another period of Internet exuberance. Yes, a lot has changed since 1999, but it’s amazing how many of the ideas being pushed are the SAME ideas, just empowered now by dark fiber, cheap broadband, and six years of Moore’s Law. And this time I think it will actually work and the Internet will change even more than it has the ways we live and work. But it isn’t going to come easy and it isn’t going to come cheap.”
I normally like what Cringely has to say. I also generally agree with him. However, in this case, he is dead nuts wrong. He’s sounding the alarm under the assumption that users are going to suddenly start using all of the space that is theoretically available. In short, his thinking is flawed and he is full of bunk.
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