People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself as a communications medium. And I think we probably do need to pay some more attention to that, because it's actually kind of fragile.
Danny HillisWe're at a point in time which is analogous to when single-celled organisms were turning into multi-celled organisms. So we're the amoebas.
Danny HillisIf you hear an expert talking about the Internet and saying it [does] this, or it will do that, you should treat it with the same skepticism that you might treat the comments of an economist about the economy or a weatherman about the weather.
Danny HillisI am convinced that we humans are just at the beginning of our journey, on our way to becoming something more wonderful than we can imagine.
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