Researchers Explore Scrapping Internet | The Huffington Post: "Although it has already taken nearly four decades to get this far in building the Internet, some university researchers with the federal government's blessing want to scrap all that and start over.
The idea may seem unthinkable, even absurd, but many believe a 'clean slate' approach is the only way to truly address security, mobility and other challenges that have cropped up since UCLA professor Leonard Kleinrock helped supervise the first exchange of meaningless test data between two machines on Sept. 2, 1969."
Photo Credit: Leonard Kleinrock comments on the dark side of the Internet - spam, pornography, among others - at his office in the UCLA Computer Science Department in Los Angeles, Tuesday, March 27, 2007. Kleinrock created the basic principles of packet switching, the technology underpinning the Internet, while a graduate student at MIT. He was the first to develop the underlying principles of packet switching, the communications technology of the Internet, a decade before the Internet was founded. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes via Huffington Post)
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This research is all government/pentagon funded so the immediate question is: CUI BONO?
If they start the internet all over, or even create a competitive version which will eventually supplant the one we all know and love for its chaos and freedom, who do you think will ultimately own and control it?
It's cyber-1984.
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