9 November 2007 - internet traffic

The internet traffic pie has four slices. The biggest slice is machines talking to other machines. The next is spam of many kinds—machines talking to humans. Third is actual human usage, mostly teenagers posting “ZOMGLOLz!!1!” Last and smallest, so insignificant that it’s hardly worth mentioning, is the traffic of the tiny cadre of programmers telling the machines what to say. And why do we machines need that?