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When’s that edit getting here?
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WAG: not until well after we actually have those 667 million billion IP addresses for every mm^2 of the Earth’s surface. 
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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.
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2038, huh? So we’ll run out of phone numbers just as all the UNIX machines crash. Interesting times…