Open Transcripts

The Breakdown: Joan Donovan on Domestic Misinformation

presented by Joan Donovan, Oumou Ly

We are immersed in a hyperpartisan media ecosystem where the future of journalism is at stake, the future of social media is at stake. And right now I’m really worried that the US democracy might not survive this moment.

2013 Internet Hall of Fame Interviews: John Perry Barlow

presented by John Perry Barlow

My greatest hope, and the thing I’ve been working for most of my life now, is that it will realize itself as being something that makes it possible for anybody to know anything that they’re capable of knowing. Which I think is a wonderful thought. Or that it will make it possible for anybody that has something important that other people should hear to say it, without any fear of being shut up or coerced or that sort of thing.

2013 Internet Hall of Fame Interviews: Steve Goldstein

presented by Steve Goldstein

There was really no real security built, other than things like passwords and maybe some encryption here or there. And the attitude that my boss had at National Science Foundation was, “That’s not our concern. This is for the academics. People want to build in all kinds of security, that’s somebody else’s problem.” I think that was a very valid point at that time, but that was 1990.

2013 Internet Hall of Fame Interviews: Teus Hagen

presented by Teus Hagen

We tried to connect to the ARPANET. And that was the Ministry of Defense, and at that timeframe we were in let’s say a “cold war” with Russia. And we were not allowed to attest to that. So we silently set up from phone lines SLIP protocol, TCP over serial lines. And started to do Internet.

2013 Internet Hall of Fame Interviews: Raúl Echeberría

presented by Raúl Echeberría

The Internet by itself is not valuable for anybody. The Internet is valuable if it impacts in the life of the people. So this is what we have to work on every day.

Scratching the Surface #153: Denise Gonzales Crisp

presented by Denise Gonzales Crisp, Jarrett Fuller

It has developmentally taken me a long time to realize I really need people. So you know, it goes from that kind of like “I’m going to be the heroic artist in my atelier,” to you know, “Let’s get together and make s’mores and drink whisky and make design.”

The End of the Virtual: Digital Methods

presented by Richard Rogers

What I’m going to do today is situate digital methods as an approach, as an outlook, in the history of Internet-related research. I’d like to divide up the history of Internet research largely into three eras, the first being where we thought of the Web as a kind of cyberspace.

2013 Internet Hall of Fame Interviews: Kanchana Kanchanasut

presented by Kanchana Kanchanasut

I think my role for the Internet was that I was lucky to be part of the people who spread the Internet through Southeast Asia. I brought the Internet to Thailand.

Silencing the Silence
The Vicious Cycle of Censorship and Surveillance

presented by Berhan Taye

Where I come from and where the rest of the world is, the issue’s not intelligence agencies having backdoor access to our data. Yes, they do have backdoor access to our data, but they also have front door access to our data.

2013 Internet Hall of Fame Interviews: Ram Mohan

presented by Ram Mohan

Keeping cohesion at the core of the Internet is an important thing. I’m not worried that that’s going to go away. But you have to continually pay attention to it. Because that function of converging, at the core is a critical one. When you do that well, what it allows is at the edges of the Internet it allows for things to happen. For innovation, for ideas to happen.