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This is just a great mini-editorial comment on the pseudo-manifesto circling about with the 2012 doomsday theories. Interesting concept they present.  It’s kind of like Batman Begins where the League of Shadows controls the rise and fall of society.  Treating the internets as it’s own social culture (which it is), seeing it at it’s height (which it most definitely is) and burning it down one CPU cycle at a time.  Aside from the fact I’d loose my job as a developer, I think it’s brilliant.

Doomsday alert: internet to become an “unreliable toy” in 2012.

Okay, so first things first — we all know the world’s on track to end in 2012, so it’s not like this really matters. But if, just if it manages to survive (à la Y2K), you can pretty much bank on a mass reversal of culture as we all push aside our netbooks and return to the playground. According to some “research” slated to be fully published “later this year,” PCs and laptops are apt to “operate at a much reduced speed, rendering the internet an unreliable toy” from 2012 onward. The reason? Massive growth in internet demand, which is undoubtedly on pace to crush existing infrastructure that can’t ever be improved upon by anyone, regardless of their market capitalization or determination to expand. It’s noted that the internet itself will somehow survive, but that users will begin to see “brownouts,” which are described as “a combination of temporary freezing and computers being reduced to a slow speed.” Thank heavens for FinallyFast, right?

And I’m glad I’m not the only one who caught the bluescreen of death on an old Powerbook (if you don’t get it, I won’t even bother you with why its wrong).  They also flash a message right after this scene where the frustrated model is using an Apple keyboard and it reads “For PC computers only”.  All I have to say, is I’m so glad they know so much about computers.. I’d trust them.