Looks like the trusty old chestnut of year end predictions is back: The Economist is predicting a "traffic jam on the information superhighway":

Peering into [our] crystal ball, the one thing we can predict with at least some certainty is that 2008 will be the year we stop taking access to the internet for granted. The internet is not about to grind to a halt, but as more and more users clamber aboard to download music, video clips and games while communicating incessantly by e-mail, chat and instant messaging, the information superhighway sometimes crawls with bumper-to-bumper traffic.

I love the way Marc Andreeson addressed this, starting with this:

First, 1994 is calling and wants its metaphors back.

This is such an old story you would think that reporters would realize that it's a perennial by now. Heck, I got my first Digg-storm by writing about stuff like this. Wake me when the last one of these stories makes the rounds...

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