[Bluelemon]

Do you think with so many users and so much data overload, the internet will collapse one day?

[Stillski]

Global collapse is doubtful, but definitely I have experienced internet shutdown for sometime may be like for a half-day or so.

[mothered]

No doubt Its capacity Increases by the second.

If It were to shutdown, the entire globe will come to a standstill.

[Zerkaa]

With progress in technology happening everyday, I very much doubt about the failure of internet. It will be a disaster if such an outage happens. Work will come to standstill. Billions will be lost. Strange, how the world has become so much dependant on the internet.

[Spooky]

I think we are becoming entirely dependent on the internet, but I don’t think it will come to a halt because of the amount we are consuming. Every day we are building stronger bandwidths

[Oni]

As use increases, so does the scalability. Things like IPV6 were made in recognition of limitations, and I'm sure other aspects have the same level of hindsight.

[Drako]

At the point that our technology is at right now, the only thing that could bring the internet to a halt, would be an apocalypse. The internet isn't one entity, it's a collection of billions of servers, websites, images, and plaintext. Servers may go down on occasion, but if they are consistently monitored, they'll be back up within hours. I find the idea of the entire internet going down, very unlikely.

[Oryza]

Users are increasing day by day and the technology is also getting updated and everybody is dependent on internet. Cannot imagine about global shutdown.

[Zerkaa]

The world is so much dependant on the internet that I am sure our providers are continuously updating it to prevent any malfunction which can result in a huge monetory loss. Outages can occur which will be rectified as soon as detected. But complete shutdown will mean doomsday and I do not think such a scenario is likely.

[mothered]

But complete shutdown will mean doomsday and I do not think such a scenario is likely.

With the Infrastructure In place, I'd say It's next to Impossible.