Video Response

I found it extremely interesting that the Internet did not arise from a single eureka! moment. Rather it developed slowly, by different actors combining their own ideas, as well as those of others. This is exemplified by the fact that the three pre-Internet networks were developed out of three completely different contexts: military, scientific, and economic. It is very interested how ideas developed under these three distinct social contexts were combined to produce something everyone uses today.

The video also aroused curiosity. Seeing how the computers, and the internet, have progressed so much over the past 40 years, begs the question, how far will they progress over the next 40? I believe that the rate of growth will only keep increasing. It is very possible, in my eyes, that computers and the Internet of today, may be seem even more primitive to people of the future, than computers of yesteryear appear to us. It is quit exciting to think about the future of computing. It will be funny to see how teenagers of the future will look back and mock our technology, just like we mock 8-track players and tube televisions.