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You Won't Recognize the Internet in 2020
alphadogg writes "As they imagine the Internet of 2020, computer scientists across the country are starting from scratch and re-thinking everything: from IP addresses to DNS to routing tables to Internet security in general. They're envisioning how the Internet might work without some of the most fundamental features of today's ISP and enterprise networks. Their goal is audacious: To create an Internet without so many security breaches, with better trust and built-in identity management. Researchers are trying to build an Internet that's more reliable, higher performing and better able to manage exabytes of content. And they're hoping to build an Internet that extends connectivity to the most remote regions of the world, perhaps to other planets. This high-risk, long-range Internet research will kick into high gear in 2010, as the US federal government ramps up funding to allow a handful of projects to move out of the lab and into prototype. Indeed, the United States is building the world's largest virtual network lab across 14 college campuses and two nationwide backbone networks so that it can engage thousands – perhaps millions – of end users in its experiments."
You make my point exactly: "he thought the geeks had a very good thing going".
They real questions are how much money did he make off of promoting this legislation? How many stock options did he receive? What companies did he have major shares of? How many of those companies were awarded government contracts both prior to and after the legislation in question?
Don't tell me he did it because he was "concerned" about the citizens of the U.S. It's the same crap we are seeing again today with his carbon credit trading scam. The fact is both the Internet and more environment friendly devices HAVE BEEN and WILL CONTINUE to be developed with or without government intervention. You don't think they can afford multi-million dollar houses up and down both coasts on their salary? Do you? Did you know houses and other properties do not have to be disclosed on official Congressional records?
Refer to the questions above any time you see a new bill(AKA official backdoor brokered deal) being introduced in Congress.
*sigh*
You don't want to get it, do you? THINK! Use your brain, just this once, please?
It's not about the tech they will be using, it's about what they are going to do with it! And who will be be in charge, what powers they will get and what they are capable of doing with it and in the end what will be done with it. Jesus, it that so hard to grasp?
Maybe you have been missing out what has happened the last couple of years... Tracking, documenting and automating it all to watch your every move. Cameras, scans, wiretapping the entire world, logging ISP traffic, etc, etc, et fscking cetera!
I have nothing to prove. Repeatingly calling you for what you are is just me having a rant.
If you would just open up your eyes, do the math, look at what has happened, what is happening now and think about what it is that governments are doing. Hostory, you might have never heared about this saying, repeats itself.
Here be signatures
I think you're distorting the facts a little. Corporations own politicians utterly, and the government only does things in the interests of large corporations. Our "elections" are just a sham, where we get to choose which corporate-owned corrupt politician gets to warm the bench for this term, out of a small selection of corporate-approved politicians. What's funny is that our country is absolutely a fascist state, but no one wants to admit it.