[ih] Failed Expectations: A Deep Dive Into the Internet’s 40 Years of Evolution (Geoff Huston)

[Larry Press]

I also saw this and tweeted it with a different excerpt and news of Meta being fined.

https://twitter.com/larrypress/status/1663683385838161920

Larry
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From: Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2023 4:23 PM
To: the keyboard of geoff goodfellow <geoff at iconia.com>
Cc: Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org>; Larry Press <lpress at csudh.edu>
Subject: Re: [ih] Failed Expectations: A Deep Dive Into the Internet’s 40 Years of Evolution (Geoff Huston)

On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 5:17 PM the keyboard of geoff goodfellow via
Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
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> EXCERPT:
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> In a recent workshop, I attended, reflecting on the evolution of the
> Internet over the past 40 years, one of the takeaways for me is how we’ve
> managed to surprise ourselves in both the unanticipated successes we’ve
> encountered and in the instances of failure when technology has stubbornly
> resisted to be deployed despite our confident expectations to the contrary!
> What have we learned from these lessons about our inability to predict
> technology outcomes? Are the issues related to the aspects of the
> technology? Are they embedded in the considerations behind the expectations
> about how a technology will be adopted? Or do the primary issues reside at
> a deeper level relating to economic and even political contexts? Let’s look
> at this question of failed expectations using several specific examples
> drawn from the last 40 years of the Internet’s evolution.
>
> *The Public Debut of the Internet (and the demise of O.S.I.)*...
>
> [...]
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hilariously I was also within seconds of posting this. Larry lurks on
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