Sometimes, when things aren’t going your way, the best way to handle things is to simply walk away.
At least, that’s the philosophy being followed by the Japanese communications ministry, which apparently intends to build a new Internet.
According to an Associated Press story, the Japanese government, concerned about growing “quality and security” problems, is working to set up a research organization by the fall of 2008. With luck, they’re hoping to have the new network up and running in 10 to 15 years.
It will be interesting to see how the new network will keep out the hackers, spammers, and loudmouths who are causing it to be built in the first place.
My own experience, as a confirmed packrat, is that if you create a nice, clean space in order to escape an overcrowded room, that space will eventually accumulate the same amount of junk as the first.
I strongly suspect that a new Internet, no matter how carefully planned, will be prone to the same phenomenon or will be so controlled that it will lack the creativity that the current whirlpool offers.
Thoughts?
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As an avowed cynic, I’d have to agree that while this new internet might be a little cleaner a littler longer, it’s not going to stay that way.
Also, given that the Japanese have a reputation rivaled only by the Germans for being dirty, dirty perverts, and that even in non-sexual matters they tend to be much more “adult” (for one thing, even well-loved characters in a cartoon series stand a good chance of dying if there’s any serious violence in the show), I kind of have to wonder exactly how this new internet will be more “clean.” Do they just mean mechanical/security issues?
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I agree with you on that you have said. There is nothing that can stop hackers or spammers from getting inside the room. There is always downfull to this. It is just overcrowded now, just looking for new place to huntdown. So its not how to make room safe, it is how to prevent ourselves from those intruders.
I’m not sure how they’d do it either. And why? Wouldn’t it be better to just improve security and ‘cleanliness’ (where do they get the idea!) on the one we have?
One thing I do know: it’ll take another 10 to 15 years before we can access it with IE without the pages breaking. That’s for sure