The need for a more powerful/energy efficient internet

The design of a new internet would mandate using the highest cost performance IT architecture available, which means industry standard hardware, open-source software components, and a fair amount of Big Iron–large computer systems to handle large computational problems more efficiently than clustered smaller systems.

And the design of a new internet would require special attention to electric power consumption because energy costs are now a large factor in cost/performance calculations. And those costs will increase as we move further from peak oil production.

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