Disruptive technologies uproot culture, can precipitate wars and even topple empires. By this measure, human history has seen nothing like the internet. Pioneers of the digital revolution, Vinton Cerf, Neil Gershenfeld, Elizabeth Stark, and Alex Wright, examine the Internet’s brief but explosive history and reveal nascent projects that will shortly reinvent how we interact with technology—and each other. From social upheaval and ever-shifting privacy standards to self-driving cars and networked groceries, this eye-opening program provides a stunning glimpse of what’s around the corner.

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Original Program Date: June 2, 2012
MODERATOR: John Donvan
PARTICIPANTS: Vinton Cerf, Neil Gershenfeld, Elizabeth Stark, Alex Wright

John Donvan's Introduction 00:00

Participant introductions 2:13

The father of the internet... Who is the mother of the internet? 4:07

Is this the future that you had imagined for the internet? 9:02

Inventing the first E-mail. 14:04

What does history tell us about technology that lets us access knowledge? 16:44

12th century canon table technology and indexing books. 21:05

The Book on the Book... the very first thoughts of the internet. 24:27

Who is Vannevar Bush? 28:49

What is the internet of things? 31:25

What is the internet and how does it work? 37:34

Who owns the internet? 41:15

How has the cloud made the internet better... or worse? 46:57

What is the "stop online piracy act"? 51:05

Social media changing politics world wide. 57:45

The inter-species internet. 1:03:08

MIT's augmented reality. 1:22:22

Privacy and control of where our information is found. 1:15:55

What are the new technologies from Google? 1:20:19