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Cyber Space The 9th Wonder of the World

CHANGE THE WORLD

The Chinese invention of moveable type, is credited to Bi Sheng in the year 1045 AD way before Guttenberg ever printed a bible, and the internet is far and away more impressive in changing the world than moveable type was for it's time.

The Net is a world of ends. You're at one end, and everybody and everything else are at the other ends. The Internet’s value is founded in its technical architecture.

Remember one other simple fact:

"The Internet is a way for all the things that call themselves networks to coexist and work together. It's an inter-network. Literally. What makes the Net inter is the fact that it's just a protocol — the Internet Protocol, to be exact. A protocol is an agreement about how things work together."

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INTERNET - WHAT IT WAS

The Internet was developed in the 1960s by DARPA, actually, with 4 nodes and 4 computers by 1971, used by academic researchers in the USA. Dial up speed was only Kilobits. In 1998 there were about 50 million users supported by 25 million servers and ICANN was created. In 1979 10 MB of disk storage cost $1,000.oo.

INTERNET - WHAT IT IS

Today there are an estimated 542 million servers and about 1.3 billion users. Around 3 billion mobile phones, 15% are internet enabled adding 450 million devices to the net, and 1 billion personal computers, Voice over IP, video conferencing, audio, and video content, scientific databases. In 2008 2 TB of disk storage cost $600.oo. (in 1979 2 TB cost $200 million)

INTERNET - WHAT IT WILL BE

There Is Going To Be An i-9/11 And An i-Patriot Act.
From Dial up to Deep Space
DTN: Delay and Disruption Tolerant Networking
The Interplanetary Internet: networking technology for space that allows interoperable networking between spacecraft of earth origin and devices on the internet. This will be standardized for usy by any of the world's space agencies. Spacecraft from any country will be interoperable each other.

Loss of Information

 

Application software does not last 1000 years. Unless it is preserved we loose our ability to interpret digital content. You won't be able to open, format, or interpret digital content. We need to preserve the software and operating systems even when the company goes out of business.
Access to the Internet is a well-defined term, and is what cable and fiber based companies offer today for a monthly  subscription fee. The Internet itself an all-encompassing term, which means best efforts delivery of packets to every reachable  destination on the Internet.
Merely being able to access part of the World Wide Web is not access to the Internet. It is simply access to part of the World Wide Web. See: http://www.dpsproject.org for a very clear and simple definition of this important issue in a legal context.

Always remember:
A search engine reflects the values and priorities of the engineers who design the algorithms. But not all search engine results pages (SERPS) are equal.

Google is a company, while Wolfram Alpha is a technology. It is Google’s success with users and advertisers that made it “important.”

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Message Overload Taking Toll on Workers 5/20/98

Author: Kirstin Downey Grimsley Issue: Lifestyle
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1998-05/20/064l-052098-idx.html
Description: With so many time- and labor-saving devices (such as the fax, voice-mail, email, corporate intranet, standard, cell and car phone, the beeper and pager) available for our convenience it is no wonder that we are beginning to feel a bit overwhelmed. A workplace study conducted by the Gallup Organization and Calif.-based Institute for the Future found that workers are being "bombarded by an avalanche of information" and are starting to "cry for a respite from the intrusions." The study, released yesterday, found that the 1,035 employees that were surveyed and observed at work received an average of 190 messages a day, most requiring some form of response. Employees said that they were starting their work day earlier and staying later in an effort to keep up. While many experts believe that the growth of information is causing people to work smarter and faster -- several academic studies have reached different conclusions when it comes to the effect on productivity "People are treated like they are machines that are on all the time," said economist Paula Rayman, director of the Radcliffe Public Policy Institute that also has interviewed workers on this subject. "All these workers wanted 'sacred time' -- time during the day with no interruptions...You absolutely need uninterrupted time to get your work done. If you are constantly bombarded with messages, you never get your real work done."