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Vinton Cerf
June 23, 1943 -
Nationality: American
Category: Inventor
Subcategory: American Inventor

But what we all have to learn is that we can't do everything ourselves.

   

The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.

   

Movie distribution may very well have migrated fully to digital form by then, making a huge dent in the need to print film and physically distribute content.

   

So, for me, working with larger companies has often been very satisfying, precisely because of the ability of bringing critical mass to bear on a given effort.

   

Their Internet usage is growing very rapidly, and even they can do the math: If everyone in China needed an IPv4 address - just one - this country would use up one third of the entire public IP address space.

   

Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them.

   

We will have more Internet, larger numbers of users, more mobile access, more speed, more things online and more appliances we can control over the Internet.

   

There was something amazingly enticing about programming.

   

There is an underlying, fundamental reliance on the Internet, which continues to grow in the number of users, country penetration and both fixed and wireless broadband access.

   

What is special about VOIP is that it's just another thing you can do on the Internet, whereas it is the only thing - or nearly the only thing with the exception of the dial-up modem and fax - that you can do on the public switched telephone network.

   

I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time.

   

Today we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion.

   

The purpose behind terrorism is to instill fear in people - the fear that electrical power, for instance, will be taken away or the transportation system will be taken down.

   

First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense.

   

There's a tremendous amount of energy in Japan and, increasingly, in China.

   

In the earliest days, this was a project I worked on with great passion because I wanted to solve the Defense Department's problem: it did not want proprietary networking and it didn't want to be confined to a single network technology.

   

At some point, you can't lift this boulder with just your own strength. And if you find that you need to move bigger and bigger boulders up hills, you will need more and more help.

   

We had no idea that this would turn into a global and public infrastructure.

   

Yet we still see continuous reports of bugs.

   

We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.

   

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