The Future of the Internet

Widely known as one of the “Fathers of the Internet,” Dr. Vint Cerf co-authored the TCP/IP protocol suite that provides the Internet with its basic architecture – two decades before most people would discover that anything like the Internet was possible. He has remained a prominent figure in Internet history ever since, dedicating a career to improving what he helped to create and pioneering new applications as the Internet continues to revolutionize technology and human society. Today, Dr. Cerf, now serving as Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist, will discuss what the future may hold for one of modern society’s greatest technological advancements: from the pressing challenges of privacy, security, and open access to the radical possibilities of world-wide internet access and, perhaps, interplanetary connectivity.