Everyone will have to go back to reading books on paper.

27 petabytes (27 million gigabytes)

Holy SHIT!

Numbers that large should be outlawed

These is a public announcement

These is the last page of the internet !!!!!!!!

Now go out and play .

POP for bignosemousie's comment. How wonderful.
And what will happen to those who know no other if The Machine Stops?

I'm kind of hoping that it'll be like Y2K, the whole no blitz thing.

This reminds me of a scene from The I.T. Crowd. "If you type 'Google' into Google, you will break the internet."

2010 is just around the corner....I imagine that by then I'll be so addicted to CM that I'll have withdrawal symptoms.....

In 2010, aren't we supposed to be sending a secons manned mission to Jupiter to find out what happened to the one we sent up there in 2001?

They make enough money to make the investment worthwhile. It can't be long before they introduce a new means of transmission to cope with the rates.
The study is based on the past. The future is open. Every day there are revolutionary developments, and applications being designed, particularly in the technical field, because that is where people are looking. How about making every Home PC a server, to spread the load. Like the way they manage to solve immense calculations, by letting a segment of the calculation be done behind the local programs, of millions of volunteer PCs. T
Two years in cyberspace is a long time.
The most important thing.
If it breaks, what will we learn by fixing it?

That's just around the corner! I'm with you coconutshell I hope its just like Y2K