Accoring to InformationWeek, there are only five years worth of IP Addresses available before the internet runs out of space, or at least, using the present system, but always, there is a plan B, and it sounds really technical:
The current version, IPv4, allows for more than 4 billion (2^32) Internet addresses. Only 19% of the IPv4 address space remains. Somewhere around 2012-13, the last Internet address bloc will be assigned and the Internet will be full, in a manner of speaking.
“We must prepare for IPv4’s depletion, and ARIN’s resolution to encourage that migration to IPv6 may be the impetus for more organizations to start the planning process,” said John Curran, chairman of ARIN’s Board of Trustees, in a statement.
IPv6 promises some 16 billion-billion possible addresses (2^128).
IP numbers are used to route traffic around the Internet. They’re not the same thing as Internet domain names, which get mapped to IP numbers through the Domain Name System (DNS) because it’s much easier to remember “Amazon.com” than “72.21.203.1.”
“Unless action is taken now, a quiet technical crisis will occur, not unlike Y2K in its complications, but without a fixed date or high level public attention,” wrote Stephen M. Ryan, a partner at McDermott Will & Emery LLP and ARIN’s general counsel, and Raymond A. Plzak, CEO and president of ARIN, in a forthcoming policy paper.
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22.Jun.07 
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According to Webware, Avis have now started offering in-car Wi-Fi that turns your rented car into a mobile Wi-Fi hotspot. Of course; we expect it to take a decade or two to reach Malaysia’s Avis branches…
The service, called Avis Connect, is provided by Autonet Mobile using 3G and 2.5G (EVDO, 1xRTT) connections. For an extra $10.95 per day, Avis says renters get wireless broadband connectivity "at all times and places during their travel, from airports to meetings to hotels, and everything in between." We’re not sure how the Wi-Fi signal will hold up if your car is parked in a hotel’s underground lot and your room is on the 32nd floor, but motel patrons should have no problem connecting. Avis Connect is being introduced to airport-based rental centers in five cities this summer, including San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New Jersey, and will be expanded to Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Miami, New York, San Diego, and Seattle in the fall.
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22.Jun.07
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Read / Write Web introduces a fascinating video from Davide Casaleggio that details the evolution of mankind into a state of virtual reality, where Google and Microsoft rule the world and the government makes copyright illegal. The world will never be the same again…
It is a very cool 6-minute video, which takes some educated (and imaginative) guesses at how the Web and media will evolve over the next 40-50 years. In the short movie, Google, Amazon.com and Second Life are the big winners - with Google buying Microsoft, Amazon buying Yahoo, and Second Life becoming the dominant virtual world.
The core future media concept is the Agav - an Agent-Avatar, which "finds information, people, places in the virtual worlds". Here’s where it gets interesting. In 2022 Google launches Prometeus, the Agav standard interface, and Amazon creates ‘Place’ - a company that replicates reality. Then in 2027 Second Life evolves into ‘Spirit’, where people can become who they want to, via avatars. And then finally, the ‘Google overloads’ moment - when Prometeus buys Place and Spirit! By 2050 virtual life is the world’s biggest market and Google/Prometeus reigns supreme.
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14.Jun.07
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