There was a thought-provoking article recently entitled Information Super Traffic Jam. It focused on the thought that video and other high-bandwidth media were going to stress a lot of the current internet infrastructure. The article sparked a lot of discussion on O’Reilly’s internal mailing lists, which I planned to blog…but Brian Jepson beat me to it, over on Hackszine, in a posting entitled Un-unwire Your Home.
Brian’s take is primarily practical, but it gives a real perspective on how applications drive infrastructure, and a resource that once seemed limitless starts to feel old and creaky.
The main takeaway should be this: there’s a lot more internet time ahead of us than behind us. (Someone from Microsoft once said that. I’ve now forgotten who.) Expect change.