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29 Jan 09
Kirti VasheeThe bulk of human knowledge remains offline. As more of us get access to the internet, more of the world's information will find its way online. Cerf says as MT improves it will expand teh base of human knowledge on the web
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30 Oct 08
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30 Aug 08
brian rodneyIf you thought the internet was cool, wait until it goes space age
A founding father of the web says it's come a long way, but its potential for worldwide change can and will be greater still -
29 Aug 08
Shunt 82A founding father of the web says it's come a long way, but its potential for worldwide change can and will be greater still
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21 Aug 08
annestThe internet is still very young. It was only November 1977 when a group of computer scientists successfully connected three networks around the world, including one at University College London. It took until 1989 for the internet to become commercially
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19 Aug 08
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It has provided access to information on a scale never before imaginable, lowered the barriers to creative expression, challenged old business models and enabled new ones. It has succeeded because we designed it to be both flexible and open. These features have allowed it to accommodate innovation without massive changes to its infrastructure.
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Today, there are only about 1.4 billion users,
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It's amazing how quickly those of us with internet access have come to take for granted the remarkable amounts of information we have at our disposal, but we're only seeing the beginnings. The bulk of human knowledge remains offline. As more of us get access to the internet, more of the world's information will find its way online.
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As with other transformative innovations before it, from the telegraph to television, people will continue to worry about the effects; the printing press and the rise in literacy that it effected were long seen as destabilising forces. Similar concerns about the internet are being raised, but if we take a long view, its benefits far outweigh the discomforts of learning to integrate it into our lives.
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18 Aug 08
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There are more than three billion mobiles in use today and more than 80 per cent of the world's population live within range of a network. In areas where wireline or WiFi access barely exists, many new users will first experience the internet through a mobile phone. In developing economies, people are already finding innovative ways to use mobile technology. Grameen's micro-finance and village phone programmes in Bangladesh and elsewhere are known and respected around the world, but there are many less famous examples. During the Kenyan elections, Mobile Planet provided its subscribers with up-to-the-minute results by text message. As the cost of mobile technologies fall, the opportunities for such innovation will continue to grow.
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The technology isn't perfect yet, but it's rapidly improving. Even in its present form, it's easy to imagine a not-too-distant future in which automatic translation will allow two people in the world to message one another in real time, each experiencing the chat in his or her tongue. Just imagine what a significant step that will be.
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Outsights InsightsA founding father of the web says it's come a long way, but its potential for worldwide change can and will be greater still
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17 Aug 08
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indraadnan"The technology isn't perfect yet, but it's rapidly improving. Even in its present form, it's easy to imagine a not-too-distant future in which automatic translation will allow two people in the world to message one another in real time, each experiencing
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Terry FlewVint Cerf to send the Web into space, and make it a better place. Guardianistas are sceptical - go figure!
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