The End of the Internet

The Sunday Times wrote an article about the death of the Internet and it immediately caught my attention.

According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), about 85% of all available URLs have been used up and by 2011, there will be no more left. This means that the Internet is filling up. I suppose that I have been naive enough to believe that the Internet could never end. I was wrong.

In a world that has become so dependent on the World Wide Web, it is terrifying to imagine the chaos that could break out if the Internet ran out of room for information. Would all technology fail? Would people be blinded from world issues? There are thousands of outcomes that could result from the end of the Internet and I am unable to think of any that would be productive.

There are so many wasteful websites floating around on the Internet that could be turned into something informative and useful so, in my opinion, those websites should be shut down and dedicated to more important resources.

Mark Harris, the author of the article, writes that the end of the Internet could be a good thing because it would relieve people of the constant burden of thinking about our failing economy. I disagree. How else would people know how to budget their money or what was happening to the stock market? We need to be informed about our economy, even if it is depressing and failing. We need the Internet and the end of the it will bring turmoil and disaster.

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article4271879.ece