Will YouTube destroy the Internet?

     It’s a techies worst nightmare, the equivalent to an online apocalypse.  The Internet may be too big for it’s own britches within 2 years according to AT&T.  That’s right, the Internet may run out of bandwidth and video sharing sites are taking the brunt of the blame.  Vice president of legislative affairs for AT&T, Jim Cicconi spoke to industry representatives at a Westminster eForum on Web 2.0 last week.  In essence, high-definition videos are trying to force too much information through too small a space and there will be no space left by the year 2010 according to AT&T unless upgrades are made to the infrastructure of the internet.  Cnetnews.com reported that Cicconi added, “Eight hours of video is loaded onto YouTube every minute. Everything will become HD very soon, and HD is 7 to 10 times more bandwidth-hungry than typical video today. Video will be 80 percent of all traffic by 2010, up from 30 percent today.”   The estimates for the cost of renovating the Internet range from $55 billion to upgrade the United States and $130 billion to tackle the problem worldwide.