Name: 【TED】Jonathan Zittrain: The Web as random acts of kindness (Jonathan Zittrain: The Web as random acts of kindness)
Uploaded: 2017-01-12T03:07:21.000Z
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and in my recent work I've been a bit of a pessimist.

So I thought this morning I would try to be the optimist,

Now, it may seem like there is less hope today than there was before.

People are less kind. There is less trust around.

So that's one reason to think that we might be

declensionists, going in the wrong direction.

So example number one: the Internet itself.

These are three of the founders of the Internet.

They were actually high school classmates together

at the same high school in suburban Los Angles in the 1960s.

You might have had a French club or a Debate club.

They had a "Let's build a global network" club,

They are pictured here for their 25th anniversary

as they tried to conceive of a global network.

The limitation was that they didn't have any money.

No particular amount of capital to invest,

and a hub to move packages around overnight.

which was they didn't have to make any money from it.

The Internet has no business plan, never did.

no firm responsible, singly, for building it.

or because they were expecting to make a mint off of it.

That ethos led to a network architecture,

that it was said that it's not clear the Internet could work.

you couldn't possibly build a corporate network

And even some Internet engineers today say

the whole thing is a pilot project and the jury is still out.

That's why the mascot of Internet engineering,

if it had one, is said to be the bumblebee.

Because the fur-to-wingspan ratio of the bumblebee

is far too large for it to be able to fly.

And yet, mysteriously, somehow the bee flies.

I'm pleased to say that, thanks to massive government funding,

about three years ago we finally figured out

It's very complicated, but it turns out they

So what is this bizarre architecture configuration

that makes the network sing and be so unusual?

from one place to another -- again, it's not like a package courier.

And, in a way, that's exactly how packets move around the Internet,

having no particular contractual or legal obligation

Now, of course, in a mosh pit it's hard to specify a destination.

but it's not like, "I'm trying to get to Pensacola, please."

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【TED】Jonathan Zittrain: The Web as random acts of kindness (Jonathan Zittrain: The Web as random acts of kindness)

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