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Re: IoT - The end of the internet


From: Etienne-Victor Depasquale via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2022 20:19:15 +0200


 because our lizard brains have a hard time comprehending exponential
growth

Don't forget how we pontificate on how well we understand infinity.

Cheers,

Etienne

On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 6:09 PM Chris Wright <
chris.wright () commnetbroadband com> wrote:

That’s just humans in general, and it certainly isn’t limited to our
outlook on the future of the internet. Big advancements will always take us
by surprise because our lizard brains have a hard time comprehending
exponential growth. Someone please stop me here before I get on my
Battery-EV soapbox. :D



Chris



*From:* NANOG <nanog-bounces+chris.wright=commnetbroadband.com () nanog org> *On
Behalf Of *Tom Beecher
*Sent:* Wednesday, August 10, 2022 9:25 AM
*To:* Christopher Wolff <chris () vergeinternet com>
*Cc:* NANOG <nanog () nanog org>
*Subject:* Re: IoT - The end of the internet



It always amazes me how an industry that has , since its inception, been
constantly solving new problems to make things work, always finds a way to
assume the next problem will be unsolvable.



On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 10:23 PM Christopher Wolff <chris () vergeinternet com>
wrote:

Hi folks,

Has anyone proposed that the adoption of billions of IoT devices will
ultimately ‘break’ the Internet?

It’s not a rhetorical question I promise, just looking for a journal or
other scholarly article that implies that the Internet is doomed.



-- 
Ing. Etienne-Victor Depasquale
Assistant Lecturer
Department of Communications & Computer Engineering
Faculty of Information & Communication Technology
University of Malta
Web. https://www.um.edu.mt/profile/etiennedepasquale

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