“The Internet will become overloaded, causing brownouts and then outright gridlock. From 2012, PCs and laptops are likely to operate at a much reduced speed, rendering the internet an “unreliable toy” —Ted Ritter

Created by gwern on 2010-08-04; known on 2012-06-06; judged wrong by PseudonymousUser on 2012-06-06.

• gwern estimated 5% on 2010-08-04
• gwern said “http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article6169488.ece” on 2010-08-04
• gwern said “http://wrongtomorrow.com/prediction/id/255” on 2010-08-04
• kallman estimated 0% and said “Seems to be running just fime – not everything turns to shit constantly!” on 2010-11-23
• Konkvistador estimated 1% on 2011-07-21
• PseudonymousUser estimated 2% on 2011-07-21
• JoshuaZ estimated 3% on 2011-07-22
• kallman estimated 1% on 2012-05-07
• chemotaxis101 estimated 1% on 2012-06-02
• davidiach estimated 0% on 2012-06-06
• PseudonymousUser   judged this prediction wrong on 2012-06-06.