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| Mouth-Off Main PageBig businessmen who get paid a lot for sitting behind a desk doing nothing hate the internet because it means they are going to have to learn something new, and they can’t boss the underlings around because the people below them know more than they do.
For a while, the big excuse to avoid the net was "the security threats", but there have been great advances in security programs and people have come to understand that the advantages of the internet and web run far deeper than just the transfer of things that need to be secured. Consequently you don’t hear as many executives saying they aren’t doing anything on the net for security reasons.
With the security excuse out of vogue, the new fashionable excuse is to complain that the net is too slow and on the verge of collapse. The complaint that the internet will collapse has been around since the net was invented and in fact was quite the rage when Andreesen was inventing mosaic. He was told that allowing graphics to be viewed through his browser would overwhelm the net with traffic.
The net will always have pockets of slowness and be in need of upgrades, but will never completely collapse. Since the net is totally decentralized and run by numerous independent bodies, numerous independent organizations would have to collapse at the same time to suffer a major black-out. The internet was designed to withstand a nuclear attack so that even if parts were completely destroyed by bombs, the remaining network would continue to function normally.
The net will be slow for many years because even if we get connection speeds of 10 Meg per second, providers will just come out with bigger graphics and video until the the 10 Meg feels just a little too slow. The net will alway suffer localized problems or temporary slowdowns, but because it is so decentralized, a complete collapse or total shutdown is virtually impossible.
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