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Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist Vint Cerf Discusses the Fate of the Internet W/ Stephen Colbert (video)


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Google Chief Internet Evangelist and former ACM president Vint Cerf.

Vint Cerf dropped by The Colbert Report to chat with Stephen Colbert about, among other things, the future of the Internet.

Credit: Comedy Central

Vint Cerf, Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist and general co-father of the Internet, stopped by The Colbert Report on Comedy Central to discuss the origins of the Web as well as where Cerf sees the Internet going forward.

During the conversation, Cerf noted that "about 3 billion people are online right now," a number which is unimaginably larger than what the Internet was intended for when it was being developed for the military and academia, and Cerf says we have another 4 billion people to go with expanding online access.

While Colbert comically recommended dropping free AOL CD’s to developing countries to promote the Internet around the world, Cerf pointed seriously to the role of the smartphone in spreading Internet access to third world countries.

 

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