… and you thought you had already seen the Internet!
Ok, I know that XKCD was just featured on my last post – but wow. I am completely amazed at his latest work :
Now, Pete will be able to read and understand this. Maybe some others will understand too. But to me, this is (geek) poetry. Or something like that.
On a social note, it might be worth considering how much of the pie is split between North America and Europe. IPv6 is the answer to this techno-neo-colonialism.
Oh, and on a technological note : find 192. That’s a very common private network number… no addresses begin with that on the Internet. There’s your trivia for the day.
IPv6 will just provide more addresses. If the rest of the world doesn’t, you know, get ahold of a few of those, how is it going to make the situation any different?
Also, wouldn’t neo-techno-colonialism be redundant? Shouldn’t it be technocolonialism, because that’s new all by itself?
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More addresses is the key in this case… simply because of the shear number of them. IPv6 supplies 2^128 addresses, which is the equivalent of 5×10^28 addresses per person in the world today. The idealist in me is assuming that even the greedy won’t need their fair share, let alone other people’s fair share.
As far techno-colonialism, that term could be considered to be a subsection of the economic-neocolonialism that I’ve heard suggested replaced traditional colonialism. Neo-techno-colonialism would be the same simply applied to the virtual world. All that to say : neo-techno-colonialism sounds cooler. =)
You could also call it info-colonialism, I suppose.
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