Vinton Cerf, Co-founder, Internet
February 22nd, 2007 | by A T M |
Vincent Cerf’
Co-founder, Internet.
What a designation !!!
Hearing from the person who co-founded internet, an amazing experience.
Internet is 30 odd years old. Only the old man can appreciate how his baby has grown and leaping forward.
He has seen the days when Infrastructure of the internet was getting designed. Now I guess that space is fairly well established and matured.
His interest is in Application space of the internet which excites the end users.
Infrastructure and Application. I never looked at internet as two entities.
This generation has only seen the post-browser led internet. So we don’t think much about the work which has gone in architecting the network.
Internet will always be a work in progress. As he pointed there are still plenty of concern areas to work on.
For eg: Human errors in routing table, Embedding security at the Processor level, etc
Few lines I captured from his talk…
- In future we might have a phenomenon, which might be completely from the internet we see today based quantum mechanics.
- There’s more power in sharing of the information than in information.
- In spite of having enormous computing resources internet might never have a consciousness like a human brain.
Talks like this tell me to stop, stay and think about things around me.
