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Friday, January 02, 2004
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The Internet is set to become the basis for just about every form of
communication, according to net pioneer Vint Cerf. He was asked by the BBC to describe important changes that are ahead for the Internet.
The next decade, he believes, will see the Net spread even further and
start to become the basic communications infrastructure for almost
anything. He belives that the Net will stop being a part of the
telephone network. Instead the telephone network will become a part of
the Net. We will see a fairly dramatic increase in services riding on
top of basic internet infrastructure,with more and more layers of
functionality showing up in the Net. One such could be Grid computing
that virtualizes processing and storage resources and lets people use,
or rent, the capacity they need for particular tasks.
According to Cerf, "If you have the ivory tower view that the Internet
is good only if everything on it is good you are mistaken. The internet
is a reflection of our society and that mirror is going to be
reflecting what we see. If we do not like what we see in that mirror
the problem is not to fix the mirror, we have to fix society."
11:16:43 PM
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