IP address depletion hastens IPv6 adoption

The brain has a funny way of increasing the relative importance of any particular issue with temporal proximity. In other words, it is well known that we tend to do things at the last minute (no, there's nothing wrong with you -- we're all like that!). It's not so much a brain disorder as a tendency to see more value in things that are closer to us.

Assuming that this has some evolutionary benefit that somehow aided our distant ancestors, we can understand why the likes of Bill Gates can observe:

We consistently overestimate the amount of change in the next two years, and underestimate the amount of change in the next 10 years.

This much also appears to be true in the case of version 6 of the Internet Protocol (IPv6).