[ih] ARPANET pioneer Jack Haverty says the internet was never finished

[Miles Fidelman]

Just a general comment:

Of COURSE the Internet was never finished.  It's become an organism (or 
a "self-organizing complex adaptive system" - chose your preferred 
terminology).  We planted some seeds, they grew, and now the Internet 
(and the system-of-systems of which it is a part) is evolving under it's 
own steam.

Let's just hope it doesn't become self-aware, and all the world's phones 
don't all ring at the same time.  (Anybody else here read Arthur 
Clarke's "Dial For Frankenstein?"  "“For homo sapiens, the telephone 
bell had tolled.”)

Cheers,

Miles

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In practice, there is.  .... Yogi Berra

Theory is when you know everything but nothing works.
Practice is when everything works but no one knows why.
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