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Reinforce digital levees before the Exaflood hits


December 05, 2007 At the turn of the century, it was Y2K, the mass computer malfunction bent on bringing the civilized world to a screeching halt. The term, coined by Bret Swanson of the Discovery Institute, refers to the massive tonnage of data that flows through the Internet. Last week, Nemertes Research projected that demand for broadband is on course to exceed actual global capacity in about two years.

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