This symposium was really hot, I felt like I was melting.

Besides all the excitement for the Comm Ball later that night what I found most interesting was the future of the internet. Apparently google uses more electricity to run than Melbourne. I had never thought about the internet as something outside of the virtual world. There’s more to the internet than whats inside the virtual world. There’s the outer net, I guess. As adrian pointed out the internet requires a lot of energy to run and if something doesn’t change, it will eventually collapse.

I started googling the collapse of the internet and according to the people on HowStuffWorks the internet itself can’t collapse. Basically there are millions of different traffic paths for data to cross through so it is pretty stable. “Even if an entire section of the Internet were to go offline in the wake of a natural disaster or a nuclear attack, other sections could remain functional. ”

Although what Adrian focussed on was the actual infrastructure supporting the internet. How else will the internet be run other than electricity? How do we change the way the internet is supported?