I no longer give Power Point presentations, because I've come to believe that power corrupts, and Power Point corrupts absolutely.
Vinton CerfThere's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around.
Vinton CerfI expect to see a lot of household appliances on the Net by 2010, as well as autos and other mobile devices.
Vinton CerfMy belief is that there will be very large numbers of Internet-enabled devices on the Net - home appliances, office equipment, things in the car and maybe things that you carry around. And since they're all on the Internet and Internet-enabled, they'll be manageable through the network, and so we'll see people using the Net and applications on the Net to manage their entertainment systems, manage their, you know, office activities and maybe even much of their social lives using systems on the Net that are helping them perform that function.
Vinton Cerf