Creating more phone numbers: a modest proposal

[RTFirefly]

@Absolute

When’s that edit getting here?

WAG: not until well after we actually have those 667 million billion IP addresses for every mm^2 of the Earth’s surface.

[Bryan_Ekers]

@Elendil's Heir

Very interesting link, mks57. As I read it, depending on a lot of factors including the development of new technologies or changes in social patterns, they project the exhaustion of currently-available phone numbers sometime between 2024 and 2038.

2038, huh? So we’ll run out of phone numbers just as all the UNIX machines crash. Interesting times…