Predicting the next phase of the Internet[/B]
Will the Internet still be here in 20 years? Of course it will, but that was the question asked of Nick McKeown, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Stanford; Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun; and Phil McKinney, vice president and CTO of the Personal Systems Group at HP at the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit 07.
The panelists didn’t need to assure the audience of Silicon Valley techies of the continued existence of the Internet.” Asking if Internet will be here in 20 years is like asking if Ethernet will be here,” McKeown said. However, the panelists were reluctant to paint much of picture of the Internet circa 2027. Who would have predicted the rise of Google and online advertising twenty years ago?
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Will the Internet still be here in 20 years? Of course it will, but that was the question asked of Nick McKeown, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Stanford; Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun; and Phil McKinney, vice president and CTO of the Personal Systems Group at HP at the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit 07.
The panelists didn’t need to assure the audience of Silicon Valley techies of the continued existence of the Internet.” Asking if Internet will be here in 20 years is like asking if Ethernet will be here,” McKeown said. However, the panelists were reluctant to paint much of picture of the Internet circa 2027. Who would have predicted the rise of Google and online advertising twenty years ago?
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