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Movement underway to ditch the Internet and rebuild it

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Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
Originally posted by: Wuffsunie
That's about as feisable as rebuilding the entire US highway system.
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it was replaced. it's called the interstate.
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Well, it wasn't really a "rebuild", they just built a better system that ran along side the current one, an approach that could work with the internet also. I don't think that will happen though because the government and industry want something that would probably really need a tear-down and bottom up rebuild.
 
The only way this could imaginably happen is if they redid the infrastructure alongside what we have today, a Pipes 2.0 so to say. The internet is here to stay, with the same standards and transmissions, whichever way it may evolve in the future.

Too many things depend on the internet to shut it down. It would be as devastating, if not worse, than shutting down all interstate travel in the US.
 
Ha yeah- that's not even remotely feasible.

I guess if you somehow got every major computer manufacturer and ISP on board, you might be able to do it- but that could never, and should never happen. This is a silly idea.
 
If you think about the size of the internet, you would realize this will never happen. Companies will never waste money on a new "internet" when the one in place works and can be built on.
 
Originally posted by: PokerGuy
Even if it was feasible, it would be a terrible thing, because you just know it would be locked down with all sorts of restrictions. It would have all sorts of tools to be used by content providers to further destroy fair use rights, and it would certainly remove any kind of anonymity on the internet.
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+5 Insightful
 
doubt it will work. internet 2 has already achieved 100Gbps. if the architechture of the current web is insufficient for such speeds, that's one thing. but a new internet would no doubt be created with DRM in mind.
 
How about we go halfway and just ditch email and replace it with something spamproof. Assuming that's possible.
 
Originally posted by: Gibsons
How about we go halfway and just ditch email and replace it with something spamproof. Assuming that's possible.
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Agreed. Same thing I was thinking.
 
Virtually impossible to do. Seriously, it has gotten so huge that a rebuild isn't gonna work.

And last thing we need is the government getting its greasy fingers into it.
 
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