We plainly need to provide better tools for securing Internet access. This would allow companies and individual subscribers to protect their internal resources while allowing them to reach out and be visible on the global Internet.
Predictor: Cerf, Vinton G.
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 Information Week article on the future of the Internet, Vinton Cerf discusses what needs to happen before the Internet becomes an everyday application: ”We plainly need to provide better tools for securing Internet access. This would allow companies and individual subscribers to protect their internal resources while allowing them to reach out and be visible on the global Internet. We’re also discovering new applications – packet voice, packet video, multicasting and multiparty conferencing, games, and so on – that require extensions to basic ‘best efforts’ packet service. Privacy concerns are rising and need to be addressed. Creating a routing system for a billion networks – the current scaling target – is a major challenge.”
Date of prediction: July 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Communication
Subtopic: Security/Encryption
Name of publication: Information Week
Title, headline, chapter name: The Internet – Where is it all going?
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/document?_m=b83c10508e19ffbee2b32765ce099c64&_docnum=13&wchp=dGLbVlz-lSlAl&_md5=c019c9e4607b692c5d94a18a96d58bde
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