Do you remember the story of Chicken Little?
It’s the story of the little chicken that was walking around and an acorn fell on her head and she immediately jumped to the conclusion that the sky was falling…
The rest of the story has this clucker running around the barnyard, freaking everybody out about how the entire sky is falling.
It’s a cautionary tale about how dangerous it can be to assume the worst from incomplete information…
And we’re all guilty of it.
However, sometimes, this incomplete information isn’t just an acorn falling out of a tree – sometimes the sky IS actually falling – and failing to take quick action could have you or everybody, sitting behind the 8 ball.
We have a bit of an “acorn” situation going on now…
Except not many people are running around clucking about it – and even worse – the acorn may actually be a falling sky, so the time to prepare is NOW!
I am talking about the internet, of course…
Many of us depend on the world wide web (does anybody even call it that anymore?) for our daily activities, such as: working, banking, communication, and entertainment…
It’s become an integral part of life in western society. Without it, or access to it, you might as well be living in the stone age – as it’s hard to get anything done without it.
But have you ever thought about what would happen if the entire thing got shut down?
Like if you went online to check the weather and there just wasn’t an internet – it wasn’t just a bad connection or bad WiFi – it was just gone.
A scary scenario, to be sure – but what would you do?
People have contingency plans for a zombie apocalypse – but don’t have any idea what they’d do if the internet shut down tomorrow.
It’s crazy…
“But Gorilla, the internet isn’t going anywhere! It’s here to say!”
Is it, though?
According to one tech source, not only is a complete shut down possible, but it could happen within the next three to five years.
According to Nemertes Research, the company foresees Internet “brownouts, slower-paced services, and difficulty in accessing specific content.”
Their reasoning?
Access…
With the growing popularity of bandwidth-heavy content, like streaming videos and music downloading; as well as the increased use of the internet on portable devices, like mobile phones and tablets, it is weighing on the entire thing in a big way.
“The internet is inherently self-protecting,” says the Nemertes Research’s President and senior founding partner Johna Till Johnson. “You can’t push more traffic onto the ‘net than it can handle.”
Johnson compares the internet to the roadway system…
“If the freeway is empty but local roads are congested users will spend most of their time stuck in traffic at the edges.”
That means that the instantaneous logins we’ve become so accustomed to could become a thing of the past, replaced instead, with having to wait long periods for our “opening in traffic” in order to get us onto the information super highway.
The solution to this information gridlock we’re heading towards?
Well, Nemertes claims that the industry as a whole needs to invest 60-70%
MORE on broadband access capacity (like cloud computing) than initially planned (just over $100 billion).
Because if we don’t…
The internet’s capacity may not be able to support user demand – and a major pile up on the information super highway may leave the entire world stranded for months.
Cloud-based computing companies are already beefing up their capacity in order to be able to service their customers if the internet gets too clogged. Their customers will be able to conduct business-as-usual without missing a beat…
And there are plenty of them out there for people to invest in.
These companies are all working diligently in order to get their company and their clients ready for this potential digital apocalypse scenario and the faster they work – the more they can prepare – the safer the internet is for us all.
They figured out that cloud computing is the future of the internet…
And let me tell you, there’s a lot of money to be made in cloud computing.
The industry itself is set to almost DOUBLE over the next 2 ½ years – from $122 billion now to over $200 billion by 2020 – so regardless of what happens to the internet, NOW is the time to get in if you haven’t already.
You may know the big boys like Cisco (CSCO), Amazon (AMZN), and Apple (AAPL) have all been pushing cloud computing to where it is today – and will continue to boost their cloud capabilities for years to come…
But these are the giants.
The entry price to get into these companies can sometimes be a bit more than the average Joe is willing to spend. So it’s up to us to find easier ways in, those cheaper stocks that could be a much better return on investment than one of the Blue Chippers.
There are a few smaller companies out there that most mainstream investors are overlooking that I think could clean up, again, regardless if the internet breaks or not.
I have my eye on a few of them as we speak, and I’ll be sending the names and ticker symbols out to my GorillaTrades members the moment these stocks meet my system’s strict technical requirements…
I’d love for you to be there to potentially profit too!
It would be great to have you on the GT team…
However, if being part of a winning team isn’t your thing, I get it, but do yourself a favor and look into what will happen if the internet fails…
And even more, consider coming up with a contingency plan if it does!
“I don’t believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.” – Tom Landry