Notifications time limits per person on the Internet: – Nonsense, says Norwegian expert – Dagbladet.no

(Dagbladet): – I think one should be careful not to laugh at this, but it’s hard to let be, says Torgeir Waterhouse, director of Internet and new media in ICT Norway, Dagbladet.

Eight percent of the total power consumption in the UK, go to the Internet. This weekend the Sunday Times wrote that an academic estimates that in the coming years to ration internet usage so that you and I get time restrictions on Internet access.

– Only for attention

How much time we get depends on how much we pay, says scholar Andrew Ellis at Aston University, who was quoted by media across the UK this weekend.

– I think that this is a statement to get attention. Just nonsense. Perhaps it is to increase awareness about electricity use our, or there is a journalist who has been overzealous in the interpretation of a report or quotes his Waterhouse says to Dagbladet.

But academician-Ellis does not seem joking.

The Telegraph writes that demand doubles every four years, and that the power consumed by including video surfing on smart phones, laptops and TVs.

– Internet already use at least eight percent of Britain’s total consumption of electricity – as much as three nuclear power plants – and demand increases, says Ellis to Sunday Times.

– There is growing so fast that in theory we can use all the power in the UK by 2035. We are not able to make all the extra power, so we need to reduce the supply – maybe by measuring users so that they pay for what they use, he said.

– Not at all

CIO says it sounds like scholar has invented a silly math calculation, and mean it do not add up.

So this is not something we need to worry about, nor here in Norway?

– Absolutely not. Had it been real, the answer would obviously been to ensure access to more power. We also know that the devices we use today are increasingly using less power. Had it been some realism in his statements, he would still not be able to solve the problem of rationing Internet usage, which is about participation in society.

– There is much else one could either rationed elsewhere first, he says.

– Not worried

Waterhouse in ICT Norway believes there is no reason for concern. In fact, he stated, when he hears the statements of academic, to be discussed during a big meeting in the venerable science society The Royal Society in London this week.

According to The Telegraph, the academics discuss what is referred to as “a potentially catastrophic capacity hazard”.

– The only differences in Internet usage in our 2035 is going to be of the same genre as the difference from how we used the web 20 years ago, until now. But I’m not worried. I think we should be confident that it will be developed more and more products based on renewable energy equipment that make their own energy. There goes the right way, he said.

Andrew Lord in British BT Group, agrees academician-Ellis-spoken about their rationing.

– This is the first time we’ve had to worry about that optical fiber cables actually fills up. We could expanded network by adding more cables, but the economy does not go up, and it can increase power consumption, he says the Telegraph.