He made the right choice. the world will adapt, eventually.
I'd be willing to bet IPv6 wont be the last network upheaval we'll have as a civilization. (assuming we dont wipe ourselves out first)
What do you think will happen if we generate some really really big AI, and they realize that they'll be super reliable if we made every synapse have its own IP, then we network all the AI's together as each AI to behave as its own synapse node :-D
I imagine a bigger problem with your hypothetical might be the sheer mass of such a thing. Plus, you underestimate just how mind-bogglingly huge 2^64 is. (Granted, the IPv6 address space is going to very quite sparsely populated, but still.)
I mean, the estimate on the number of atoms in the observable universe is "only" 10^80, for comparison.
He made the right choice. the world will adapt, eventually.
I'd be willing to bet IPv6 wont be the last network upheaval we'll have as a civilization. (assuming we dont wipe ourselves out first)
What do you think will happen if we generate some really really big AI, and they realize that they'll be super reliable if we made every synapse have its own IP, then we network all the AI's together as each AI to behave as its own synapse node :-D
IPv256?