American - Scientist | June 23, 1943 -
Sleep is a waste of time.
Vint Cerf
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The Internet has introduced an enormously accessible and egalitarian platform for creating, sharing and obtaining information on a global scale. As a result, we have new ways to allow people to exercise their human and civil rights.
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You don't have to know how to build an automobile or a television set or a laptop to know how to use it.
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History is rife with examples of governments taking actions to 'protect' their citizens from harm by controlling access to information and inhibiting freedom of expression and other freedoms outlined in The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We must make sure, collectively, that the Internet avoids a similar fate.
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We have already discovered how quickly we become dependent on the Internet and its applications for business, government and research, so it is not surprising that we are finding that we can apply this technology to enable or facilitate our social interactions as well.
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Remember, 'governance' is a big word that includes human rights, freedom of speech, economic transactions on a worldwide basis - it touches everything. It's everywhere, and that's why Internet governance is Topic A in many corners.
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I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time.
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The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.
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We will have more Internet, larger numbers of users, more mobile access, more speed, more things online and more appliances we can control over the Internet.
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The purpose behind terrorism is to instill fear in people - the fear that electrical power, for instance, will be taken away or the transportation system will be taken down.
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Yet we still see continuous reports of bugs.
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There's a tremendous amount of energy in Japan and, increasingly, in China.
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