Extra Credits Season 4, Episode 15: "Spectrum Crunch"

7/5/12 1:17pm

This week, we discuss a major bandwidth problem we're about to run into.

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there are solutions though, i heard providers are now trying to put some of the 3g and 4g mobile data traffic onto wifi. this wil reduce bandwith usage a lot in cities where you always have some wifi-connection available. in the middle of nowhere though, it would still be a problem.

theentertainmentguy

July 7, 2012 - 11:17am

Running out of bandwidth is actually a scary thought because tons and tons of people rely on it for their careers.

NemesisTrestkon

July 7, 2012 - 6:21am

This is something that I would definitely keep in mind. :/

plasma snake

July 7, 2012 - 12:41am

uh last time I check the internet doesn't work that way.

Tjernstrom

July 6, 2012 - 1:38pm

This doesn't affect me AT ALL, I seriously always have a WLAN to connect to. Except when I'm driving, and I really shouldn't use my phone then.

pat speed

July 6, 2012 - 8:31am

interesting, a problem i neve rthought of. Only thing is you hadn'ty fully explain how bandwidth runs out, you said it can but a bit more detail could be helpfull

DaBlaze

July 5, 2012 - 10:06pm

You know, those "robot apocalypse" movies have been talking about this the whole time, but did anyone listen?

We rely WAY too much on technology, and now all those smartphones are eating up our bandwidth so much that we'll be without internet by 2014, and that is both stupid and sad.

But that's just being pessimistic, someone will jump in and revolutionize the internet once again, and this bandwidth issue will be a thing of the past, but until then, we're heading for pretty dark times people, and the economy will only get that much worse from this new crippled internet.

P.S. Thanks for fucking us over by putting us in debt in the first place George W. Bush...

Evil Ivan

July 6, 2012 - 1:00am

We've been indulging the avarice of money lenders since before Dubya was even born. What that faux Texan did was oversee a huge spike in the aggregate debt, and our current autocrat has only helped multiply these obligations (most of them fraudulent and all of them unnecessary) by a factor of ludicrous .

As for the spectrum crunch, the R&D required for a permanent solution will demand considerable funding. An appropriate way of going about this might be to assess an annual tax on the market value of licensed spectrum and to use such tax revenues for the purpose stated. Commensurately, we ought to eliminate the tax burden on labor and capital goods within the wireless communications sector.

The above would function far more smoothly as part of an accompanying shift in our entire monetary system and taxation structure, but I think it could still be appreciably effective all on its own right now.