[tt] New Scientist: Internet to run out of addresses 'within 3 years'

[Eugen Leitl]

On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 11:38:26PM +0200, Torsten Nahm wrote:

> Which of course is also a wonderful example of human and technological 
> adaptation to resource scarcity. I have been reading these "death of the 
> Internet imminent" articles since 1995.

Of course life goes on, but grimier and dirtier. I'd rather live
without NAT. NAT at ISP level is beyond ugly.

(In general the Internet was build around a few assumptions which 
are no longer true, and IPv6 is nothing but lipstick on a perfumed
pig. (Of course, if you have to kiss that pig, the more lipstick and
perfume the better)).
 
> If however, you feel Julian Simon, Bjørn Lomborg and all those 
> transhumanists are just hopeless optimists, here is a doomsday generator 
> for your personal pleasure:
> 
> #! /bin/bash
> for X in oil water food "ip addresses"; do

Do you think the peak oil assumption is untrue? I've seen a few
quite suggestive graphs lately.

> for Y in 2009 2011 2020 2030 2040; do
> echo "We will run out of $X by $Y." 'Repent!'
> done
> done

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