Article from the BBC reporting on the warnings from some experts that the increase in data flowing across the net will cause it to collapse at some point. I disagree an think that to a large degree the Net is self correcting. If the video phone doesn't work, you'll hang up and not use it again. There are many technologies that require the bandwidth but if they don't work, people will throttle back.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, every year someone says the internet is going to collapse under the weight of the traffic. Looking at the figures, that seems a reasonable prediction. "Back in the days of the dotcom boom in the late 90s, billions of dollars were invested around the world in laying cables," said net expert Bill Thompson. "Then there was the crash of 2000 and since then we've been spending that inheritance, using that capacity, growing services to fill the space that was left over by all those companies that went out of business."