the net will be like a ocean, or the air we breath, you just tap it, or breath it, send off your data and it finds it's own way with no need to have routers or switches for that matter
Classic Gilderspeak. What does this mean? That every packet of data (and the future is certainly packet-based) will have an autonomous software agent, with full information about the entire worldwide IP network topology (imagine the size of those tables!), and this software agent will guide it on home to where it's going?
I think that while possible, this is tremendously inefficient, and the only advantage is that it sounds cool. Why would you want every packet of data carrying a software agent, when the same task could be accomplished by boxes along the way? Economies of scale, you know. Why build a software router into every packet that passes point A, when you can just set up a simple hardware router at point A ?
As for the metaphor about the ocean, the last I heard, you can't just will ocean water from place to place. |
