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bro just add another octet to the end of ipv4. That goes from 4 billion to a trillion and will most definitely outlast modern electronics and capitalism
I think they must have thought: 'Well we thought four and a quarter billion was going to be enough. We don't want to repeat the mistake, so let's create an unimaginably large address space.'
Which, with the benefit of hindsight, now looks daft itself.
It looks daft now with a little hindsight, but we're kind of still in the foresight stage for the overall life of IPv6.