Tag Archives: Marc Andreesen bandwidth propaganda throttling stifling Economist exabyte flood

Cute Non-Technologists

The Economist buys into the telco propaganda about the Internet running out of bandwidth and Marc Andreesen thoroughly fisks the article:
Interesting! The only (correct) data you have is that carriers are rapidly upgrading their backbones. Isn’t that an indicator that they’re expanding the amount of available bandwidth to prevent your scenario from happening?

When non-technologists write about technology, They’re so CUTE! Marc Andreessen, blog.pmaraca.com, 23 Dec 2007

It’s well worth reading the rest of it.

-jsq