American - Scientist | June 23, 1943 -
We've never lived in an environment in which it has been so easy to capture information and share it. That fact that it is digital and easy to transmit exacerbates that. I don't know that we know yet what social norms we wish to adopt.
Vint Cerf
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Commercialization of assets off the planet would mutually reinforce the growth of interplanetary communication.
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We all know the Internet didn't explode until it became a commercial enterprise. Space communication will probably have the same characteristic.
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The Internet browser is the most susceptible to viruses. The browser is naive about downloading and executing software. Google is trying to help by releasing the Chrome browser as open source.
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There needs to be some regime that is overseeing access to broadband to make sure we have openess; otherwise, there is a risk it won't be open anymore. We spent quite a bit of time with Verizon policy people in addition to participating in a multilateral discussion with the Federal Communications Commission.
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It seems pretty clear that the Internet has an important economic role to play for China as it reaches out to the rest of the world.
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The idea that Google, Yahoo, and eBay are getting a free ride is absolutely unfair criticism. We have to build out our own infrastructure. And we have to inter-connect to the public Internet.
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It doesn't matter if it's a wireless or wired network. I think network management can be introduced that is equally sensible.
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There's nothing special about wireless networks except that wireless capacity is sometimes less than what you can get, for example, from optical fiber.
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Energy, health care and education are just three examples of areas in which information and information management are critically important. How are we using our energy? What appliances in homes or business are consuming the most energy? When do they consume it? Can the load be shifted? How efficient are these devices?
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You should know that I've been hearing-impaired, not quite since birth, but I've been wearing hearing aids since I was 13, so I'm very conscious of the difficulty of voice communication.
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Written communication is a tremendous help for me, and so when electronic mail was invented in '71, I got very excited about it, thinking well, gee, the deaf community could really use this, or the hard-of-hearing community as well.
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