ComputerActive issue 154 (8 - 21 January) reports on the celebrations for the 30th anniversary of ARPANET, the predecessor of the internet. Founders Dr Robert Kahn, Vincent Cerf and and Peter Kirstein took the opportunity to point out that, had the net's potential to disseminate information been forseen, 'it's unlikely that commercial and government bodies would ever have let it happen.'
Alarming? Unsurprising? It's distinctly weird thinking that we're all operating in an environment that, given a magic wand, the mandarins would simply erase from existence if they could. I just hope that Captain Buggerly Otherly and his associates are keeping an eye on the situation. : )
Alarming? Unsurprising? It's distinctly weird thinking that we're all operating in an environment that, given a magic wand, the mandarins would simply erase from existence if they could. I just hope that Captain Buggerly Otherly and his associates are keeping an eye on the situation. : )
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