Vint Cerf Keynote speech

In his keynote talk , Tracking the Internet into the 21st Century , Vint Cerf gives us a sense of the present status and developments involving the internet and what he perceives to be most likely to happen in the future

1 . There is a great development in the penetration rate of the internet over the past decade

Cerf points out that the internet is now and has always had an international character to it . Over the last ten years , the number of internet users and internet hosts has increased from 50 million in

July 1997 to 1244 million users around the world in September 2007 , and from 22 .5 million hosts in June 1997 to 489 million hosts in July 2007

The rapid influx of mobile phones and gadgets signifies the possibility that many people had been introduced and will be introduced to the internet through mobile gadgets instead of laptops . As more people from different parts of the world including Asia and other continents become introduced to the internet , the content of the internet , interests of people , style , and culture will strongly become influenced by internet moguls and scientists in that specific region (Cerf , Vint

Truly , according to Cerf , if one looks at the internet now , what the person can see is a highly-connected , bigger , and more colorful version of the internet a few decades ago

2 . Technology Shapers : what has made the internet what it is now are the decisions made by Cerf and his colleagues

Cerf and his...