Internet: Not Ready For Prime Time

I’m not an engineer, so I don’t understand the technicalities of this, but Michael Jackson almost killed the Internet. People who do understand the technicalities are saying this is just a sample of how the Internet would be crippled it there were an actual large scale calamity.

Every time I start rambling about Internet delivered video, someone always says, “What about the bandwidth?” I live under the naive assumption that Internet bandwidth expands constantly under some kind of Moore’s Law equation, but I guess that’s not true. Does this hinder the eventuality that much of the video content that we consume will come through the Internet?