Cooperate and Thrive, or Divide and Conquer? #reinventthenet
Cooperate and Thrive, or Divide and Conquer?
IFTF Second Curve Internet Speaker Series with David P. Reed—December 15, 2014
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"You never step into the same river twice. So it is with the Internet. The Internet transcends any particular physical devices, any particular services, country boundaries etc. But today it remains a collection of rivers, with firm banks, a few major sources, and a vast undifferentiated ocean of "consumers."
The Internet has begun to encompass the air around us. That is, almost all of us in the West now carry the Internet with us, maintaining constant connections to the rivers, attempting to create "rivers" in the sky. Technically, rivers in the sky makes no sense at all. What will the next phase of the Internet look like? How will it be built?
In this talk we will focus on two major technology issues that challenge the future evolution of the Internet—radio networking architecture and proximate interaction. In each, the core principles that helped the Internet succeed are being discarded. What will happen?"
—David P. Reed
December 2014 event with David P. Reed
We were honored to feature Dr. David P. Reed as our second speaker in the Second Curve Internet Speaker Series. Dr. Reed is well known as a pioneer in the design and construction of the Internet protocols, distributed data storage, and PC software systems and applications. He is co-inventor of the end-to-end argument, often called the fundamental architectural principle of the Internet, and recently discovered Reed's Law, a scaling law for group-forming network architectures. Dr. Reed is currently chief scientist at Tidal Scale, and he was previously a professor at MIT's Lab for Computer Science and the MIT Media Lab, an HP Fellow, and an advisor to the FCC and other government agencies and Fortune 100 companies on technology strategy.
About the Second Curve Internet Speaker Series
This event is part of IFTF’s Second Curve Internet Speaker Series, an exploration into the critical elements necessary to reinvent the Internet, stemming from our 2014 Ten-Year Forecast research. The series gathers leading minds together with IFTF’s deep experience thinking about technology and the ways of communicating, coordinating, and organizing in the changing world around us.
More Information
- For more information about the Second Curve Internet project and IFTF’s futures research, please contact Sean Ness ([email protected]).
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