Internet has been revolutionizing our life for years. It has nearly made all the things accessible from a remote location. This while has its benefits; it can also be an issue similar to one we are facing now.
All the major Olympic events are being streamed live by various networks. Normally it wouldn’t be a worry to anybody but with the massive internet usage growth and the restriction imposed by Chinese Government over number of streaming servers has definitely made it a problem, one which we need to at the very least think about.
If we only count the internet users from China and US, the number is about 430 million. Even if we assume that only 50% of the people of these two countries use the internet to watch the Olympics, we can easily figure out what are we up against. But the picture is going to be larger than this; entire world is watching the Olympics and will be streaming the videos.
The question that is on our hands is will the internet be able to pass the Olympic test. I expect it to be answered in a few days time.
