Earlier today I was reading an article on the BBC News site about how demand for bandwidth could result in the Internet “running out of capacity.” Here’s a quote:

US analyst firm Nemertes Research predicted a drastic slowdown as the network struggles to cope with the amount of data being carried on it.  Such gridlock would drastically affect how people use the web and could mean the next Google or YouTube simply doesn’t get off the ground, it said. For users, the slowdown could see a return to the bad old days of dial-up, the report predicts.

But wait! It gets worse!

“It may take more than one attempt to confirm an online purchase or it may take longer to download the latest video from YouTube,” the report cited.

What a fucking load of horseshit!

First off, let me put forth a dream: I dream that Nemertes Research goes out of business before their Doom & Gloom date of 2010. In fact, I’ll go one step further: I PREDICT that they will be out of business by 2010.

These types of “studies” always annoy the shit out of me. You know why? Because their predictions are based on the idea that we, as a society, do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING for the next two years. Yes, we just sit on our hands and watch the Internet spiral away.  As our YouTube and Google gets slower and slower, we just say “oh, well!” and let it fall apart. Talk about a depressing way of looking at life. Let’s just give up and wait for the apocalypse!

Maybe, instead of writing irritating “studies”, these bozos should go and do someting. Quit your god-dammed bitching and make something happen!

Thoughts for the Doom & Gloom crowd:

• In December 1941 the United States entered WWII (officially). By August 1945 we had the Atomic Bomb and had defeated Germany, Japan, and Italy.
• In September 1962 President Kennedy made his famous “We choose to go to the moon” speech. By July 20, 1969, we had landed a man on the moon.
• In 1992 Seagate first marketed a 2.1 GB hard drive. In 2007 you can get a 500 GB drive for about $120. In case you are counting, that’s about 238 times more capacity.
• In the mid-90s Evelyn had a kick-ass computer, running at 66 Mhz. My tiny 12″ laptop now runs at 2,200 Mhz–and has two processor cores.