Technical doomsayers learned their lesson at the beginning of 2000 following the fabulous fizzle of the Y2k bug. That’s not to say, however, that there are no more technical time bombs waiting to wreak havoc on our lives. With the explosion in the number of Internet-connected devices of late, the original addressing system — with roughly 4 billion combinations — is about to run out of IP addresses. Today, June 8th, 2011, is "World IPv6 Day," the first major trial of the new Internet Protocol Version 6, organized by the Internet Society and several major Internet companies. IPv6 provides over four billion times more addresses than IPv4, so assuming the transition goes smoothly, we have nothing to worry about for a long time.

Quote: "The Internet lives where anyone can access it." — Vinton Cerf