Cerf: Internet is a reflection of society
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InfoWorld - The Internet is a mirror of the population that uses it, said Google&#39;s vice president and chief Internet evangelist Vinton Cerf said in reference to the proliferation of fraud, social abuse, and other online crimes.
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Now that weâve analyzed the causes for verbal vitriol on the Net, letâs consider a cure. Readers like Ryan , Andrew and Forest Bell blamed the smears and flames on the anonymity offered by the Web. Thereâs lots of research to back the notion that an end to anonymity would encourage people to be nicer. [...].
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Coincidence or foresight? A mysteriously prescient note about a wrestlerâs wifeâs death highlights the predictive possibilities of the internet.
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The Internet most of us experience is not the World of Ends suggested by the end-to-end system design concepts around which the Net was originally architected and built.  Instead we have something that is faster-than-dialup, and faster-than-it-used-to-be; but is not The Net. Instead it is the part of the Net that's left in a pipe that's optimized for television, for one-way few-to-many "content delivery" and for locking users into client roles, while servers labor somewhere else. I just had FTTH (fiber to the home) installed. And, while it's way cool in some ways, it's also uncool in the way it prevents far more business than it generates for itself. It would be great if the carriers made it easy for businesses to grow on the Net, and then suppoted those businesses with services that helped those businesses thrive and grow. But the carriers would rather serve "content" to mass quantities of "consumers" while chaging prohibitive prices for "business-class" services. Hey, it's a mass media mentality, and they have every right to it. But...
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Forward to the (distributed) revolution Comment As the Web 2.0 bandwagon continues its rapidly accelerating path downhill towards the inevitable crash we find ourselves at another turning point in the development of the networked world.â¦
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Spending too much time on the Internet: bad habit or something more serious?
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Virtual communities are as important as their real-world counterparts, many members of online communities believe.
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A few of my previous columns discussed my vision of creating a more secure Internet. It involved replacing the Internet's default anonymity with pervasive authentication, from the hardware initialization, through the OS and all applications, the user, and ending with a verifiable network stream. It is my strong belief that without a complete overhaul of default authentication, malicious hacking is going to continue indefinitely.
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"Net neutrality" is a technical concept that has protected online freedom. It's essentially the First Amendment for the Internet - allowing Web users to go where they want and do what they please online.
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Life & style: Andrew Keen says the internet is populated by second-rate amateurs - and that it is swiftly destroying our culture. Tim Dowling meets him.
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Long before people spent their lives living on the web, they dreamed of living on the web. For one day at the dawn of time, at least, they did.
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Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia once said, &#8220;Search is part of the fundamental infrastructure of the Internet. And, it is currently broken.&#8221; And while he&#8217;s dabbling with the concept of an open-source search engine, Dr. Riza C Berkan of Hakia.com believes the fix is in the semantics.  The CEO and founder of the &#8220;meanings&#8221; [...]
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By gZEDIT  TODAY, visibility on the vast Internet is equal for every person, group, corporation or government agency creating a Web site. Regular people and small businesses are treated the same as multimillionaires and huge corporations. All are equally reachable.
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As the internet cafÃ© celebrates its 10th birthday, what future does it face as net access at home becomes an everyday reality for more and more people?
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By Paul Gromosiak  I must admit that I am a bit of a Luddite, but I have accepted my fair share of technology in my daily life. What concerns me is how rapidly technology seems to be taking complete control of our lives. Once our servant, I think it is now our master.
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NEW DELHI -- At least for a while, the World Wide Web wasn't so worldwide.
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With the Government embracing electronic media as tools to increase commerce and inform the people of what it is doing, words with the prefix "e" have become synonymous with new development.  The Internet and the World Wide Web offer new opportunities and pose new challenges for China.