Visions Of a Wild and Wireless Future
Shannon Henry,
Washington Post,
May 24, 2002
Ignore the headline, which is typical newspaper sensationalism. Though the article mentions wireless, the important bit of this article us summed up in the comment that "The Internet is an architectural philosophy, rather than a technology." That's really important to keep in mind when thinking about future inter networking possibilities. The philosophy, of course, is the concept of an open and distributed network system. The exact technologies that ride on the system - be they TCP or HTTP - and even the media - be they wires, fiber, wireless or even carrier pigeons - are irrelevant. This interview with Robert Kahn, one of the fathers of the Internet, really helps you take the long view (something far too few people are doing today).
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