ZOMG teh Internet DOOMSDAY is near!!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/6756899.stm

I don't understand, why can't they just lay more cables? It is expensive, I know, but if they could do it in the 90s, they can do it now.

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Copper wires cant support the amount of data that optical fibre sends to them, routers cant process as much information as they receive, the infrastructure of backbones and branches can be destroyed by natural disasters.

You name it, the Internet will die from it. I'm surprised no one has mentioned computer cancer.