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Vint Cerf
American
Scientist
Born:
Jun 23
,
1943
About
Internet
People
Technology
Will
You
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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.
Vint Cerf
World
Internet
Rest
Important
Out
Pretty
Seems
Economic
Clear
Role
China
Play
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.
Vint Cerf
Ride
Internet
Criticism
Free
Google
Build
Own
Unfair
Our
Out
Absolutely
Idea
Yahoo
Getting
Public
Infrastructure
Google Apps for Education is a suite of applications intended to be helpful to higher level educational institutions, but in the long run, I think Google has a role to play in helping to assemble relevant content for classroom use.
Vint Cerf
Education
Long
Google
Think
Suite
Apps
Relevant
Run
Classroom
Higher
Higher Level
Long Run
Institutions
Content
Educational
Role
Intended
Use
Helpful
Helping
Assemble
Play
Level
Applications
There is an odd mix of permeability and impermeability in the Net. You won't be able to communicate with everyone, and not every application will be accessible to everyone.
Vint Cerf
You
Communicate
Will
Every
Everyone
Able
Net
Accessible
Odd
Mix
Application
No matter what you do, any country in the world is going to have the ability to set its own rules internally. Any country in the world can pull the plug. It's not a question of technical issues, it's not a question of right or wrong, it's not a question of whether global Internet governance is right or wrong. It's just with us.
Vint Cerf
You
World
Matter
Internet
Country
Own
Rules
Plug
Ability
Wrong
Global
Governance
Issues
Question
Any
Going
Just
Whether
Us
Technical
Right
Pull
Set
The big deal about the Internet design was you could have an arbitrary large number of networks so that they would all work together.
Vint Cerf
Work
You
Together
Internet
Big
Design
Would
Arbitrary
About
Networks
Could
Deal
Big Deal
Work Together
Large
Large Number
Number
It's important that the adults appreciate that young people are capable of doing really astounding work.
Vint Cerf
Work
People
Important
Young
Astounding
Adult
Doing
Young People
Capable
Really
Appreciate
Governments should look at investment in broadband as a national priority on the grounds that having broadband access for virtually everyone creates opportunities for the development of the economy that wouldn't otherwise be available.
Vint Cerf
Opportunities
National
Otherwise
Virtually
Broadband
Everyone
Having
Investment
Development
Economy
Look
Access
Priority
Governments
Available
Creates
Should
Grounds
Internet and government is Topic A in every nation, all around the world. There is the question of getting the Internet built. That involves persuading government to have regulatory policies. It involves new technology to bring the Internet to rural places.
Vint Cerf
Government
Technology
World
Internet
Nation
Every
Topic
Rural
All-Around
New
Involves
Policies
Around
Built
Question
New Technology
Getting
Places
Persuading
Regulatory
Bring
Every Nation
Writing software is a very intense, very personal thing. You have to have time to work your way through it, to understand it. Then debug it.
Vint Cerf
Work
Time
You
Writing
Software
Way
Through
Understand
Very
Personal
Intense
Personal Thing
Then
Your
Thing
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.
Vint Cerf
Rights
People
Result
Internet
Ways
Scale
Introduced
Civil
Civil Rights
Allow
Sharing
New
Global
Obtaining
Exercise
Accessible
Egalitarian
New Ways
Human
Information
Creating
Platform
Improving the Internet is just one means, albeit an important one, by which to improve the human condition. It must be done with an appreciation for the civil and human rights that deserve protection - without pretending that access itself is such a right.
Vint Cerf
Appreciation
Rights
Protection
Internet
Pretending
Important
Human Rights
Must
Civil
Without
Access
Condition
Itself
Improve
Improving
Done
Human
Just
Just One
Human Condition
Which
Means
Deserve
Right
Albeit
When I helped to develop the open standards that computers use to communicate with one another across the Net, I hoped for but could not predict how it would blossom and how much human ingenuity it would unleash.
Vint Cerf
Communicate
Predict
Unleash
Hoped
Would
Net
Could
Open
Computers
Develop
Another
How
How Much
Blossom
Human
Ingenuity
Much
Across
Use
Standards
Helped
What would happen if our clothes were Internet-enabled? Can you imagine if you lost a sock? You could send out a search, and sock No. 3117 would respond that it's under the couch in the living room.
Vint Cerf
You
Lost
Clothes
Living
Our
Respond
Out
Would
Couch
Could
Were
Send
Happen
Room
Search
Living Room
Sock
Imagine
The bottom-up, loosely-coupled, bilateral and multi-stakeholder practices that have created the network of networks we call the Internet allow for a broad range of business models.
Vint Cerf
Business
Internet
Broad
Range
Network
Networks
Allow
Bottom-Up
Call
Practices
Models
Created
Bilateral
The net's future is far from assured, and history offers much warning. Within a few decades of Gutenberg's creation, princes and priests moved to restrict the right to print books.
Vint Cerf
Future
History
Few
Creation
Assured
Books
Net
Gutenberg
Restrict
Priests
Princes
Print
Within
Offers
Decades
Moved
Far
Much
Warning
Right
In a town of 3,000 people, there is no privacy. Everybody knows what everybody is doing.
Vint Cerf
Privacy
People
Everybody
Town
Knows
Doing
The idea was that you could grow a system like the Internet one network at a time and then interconnect them. In some sense, the most important thing was the invention of the architecture protocols that enabled the Internet.
Vint Cerf
Time
You
Architecture
Internet
Invention
Important
Sense
System
Some
Network
Could
Idea
Like
Most
Most Important Thing
Important Thing
The Most Important
Them
Then
Grow
Thing
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.
Vint Cerf
Freedom
Rights
Remember
Word
Internet
Freedom Of Speech
Big
Human Rights
Corners
Worldwide
Everything
Everywhere
Topic
Economic
Governance
Human
Transactions
Many
Why
Basis
Speech
I used to tell jokes about Internet-enabled lightbulbs. I can't tell jokes about it anymore - there already is an Internet-connected lightbulb.
Vint Cerf
Jokes
Tell
About
Anymore
Used
Will we shoot virtually at each other over the Internet? Probably not. On the other hand, there may be wars fought about the Internet.
Vint Cerf
Internet
Will
Other
Virtually
About
Over
Hand
Shoot
May
Wars
Each
Fought
One of my favorite books is 'The Swiss Family Robinson.' The reason is, I'm fascinated by the postapocalyptic recovery. What do we do in a disaster? How do we make do?
Vint Cerf
Family
Books
Favorite
Recovery
Disaster
Make
Robinson
How
Reason
Fascinated
Swiss
I want more Internet. I want every one of the 6 billion people on the planet to be able to connect to the Internet - I think they will add things to it that will really benefit us all.
Vint Cerf
People
Internet
Will
Every
Think
Add
Benefit
Able
More
Want
Us
Planet
Really
Billion
Connect
Things
Yet in all those cases I finally steeled myself to seize the opportunity, and find a way to muddle through and eventually conclude that I had, in fact, chosen the right path, as risky as it seemed at the time.
Vint Cerf
Time
Myself
Opportunity
Path
Right Path
Finally
Way
Those
Find
Seemed
Cases
Risky
Fact
Seize
Through
Had
Conclude
In Fact
Muddle
Chosen
Eventually
Right
There's nothing special about wireless networks except that wireless capacity is sometimes less than what you can get, for example, from optical fiber.
Vint Cerf
You
Sometimes
Example
Fiber
Nothing
About
Networks
Except
Wireless
For Example
Optical
Than
Get
Capacity
Less
Special
The internet has become one of the motors of the 21st century economy, allowing all of us to reach a global audience at a click of a mouse and creating hundreds of thousands of businesses and millions of jobs.
Vint Cerf
Internet
Become
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
Jobs
Thousands
Allowing
Economy
Global
Reach
Click
Audience
Motors
Mouse
Century
Us
Creating
Businesses
Millions
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