Finally, something to help us rebuild after the great Internet collapse of 1996!<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Metcalfe#Incorrect_predictions" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Metcalfe#Incorrect_predi...</a><p>(I am in fact a fan of Metcalfe's writing, and he did literally 'eat his words' after that wrong prediction, but this deserves mentionining in the context of a 'new Ethernet'.)