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Ten Years of Terror: Michael Hardt

presented by Michael Hardt

What’s most significant about September 11^th ten years on I think is the illusion that it created of the end of politics. By the end of politics I mean the notion that force could rule. That terror could effectively…be sufficient for power. And this was an illusion I think that was recognizable at the time of September 11^th but almost impossible to say. Almost impossible to say because of a variety of conditions of the dramatic nature of the event, and also of the forces of power that are arraigned with it.

Ten Years of Terror: Michael Dillon

presented by Michael Dillon

Ten years of the War on Terror I think has to be located also in the context of more than ten years of liberal welfare since 1989, and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and the end of the Cold War structures.

Ten Years of Terror: Mary Kaldor

presented by Mary Kaldor

For me…human security is saying an Afghan life is equal to a British life. And our security is guaranteed by contributing to a global security that treats all humans as equal. That’s something very very difficult for politicians to grasp. Partly because they still live in an old-fashioned world where they’re afraid if they use words like “human security” they’ll sound soft.

Ten Years of Terror: J. Peter Burgess

presented by J. Peter Burgess

Few concepts have seized our political imagination in the last decade like security. Few concepts have mobilized us to engage so many extraordinary measures, to dedicate so much money, and to change the lives of so many people as security. And the concept of security has not at all remained stable. It hasn’t remained at all aloof or untouched by this process.

Ten Years of Terror: Brad Evans

presented by Brad Evans

A decade on, the violence of September the 11^th, 2001 still haunts the liberal imaginary of threat. And I guess by this what I mean is that the violence of that fateful day now underwrites all forms of liberal security governance, globally. And I think this in many ways is of course understandable. I personally find myself sometimes deeply troubled by that fateful predicament faced by those people who decided to take their own lives on that horrifying day. However in spite of this, I think our response represents nothing short of a profound failure of the political and the philosophical imagination.

2014 Internet Hall of Fame Interviews: Srinivasan Ramani

presented by Srinivasan Ramani

The breakthrough moments were the moments when you succeeded in establishing communication. To a person in our field it’s a bit like the moment when Marconi tries to establish communication over the Atlantic. And you’re personally reenacting it in your own life, doing it in a different context using a technology.

2014 Internet Hall of Fame Interviews: Scott Bradner

presented by Scott Bradner

Pay attention. You can’t leave it to others. You have to pay attention. That this is…while it’s in the political sphere, it is politicians talking to politicians, trying to figure out how to control this thing. It’s in your future. It’s in all of our futures, but you’ve got more of a future than I.

2014 Internet Hall of Fame Interviews: Radia Perlman

presented by Radia Perlman

The things that I designed made it so that the network would…you know, be self-fixing and self-organizing. There’s a lot of things that other people designed that are fancy features that work if you’ve configured them exactly right but if you make mistakes it just will be horrible. And so I’ve tried to talk to people like that sometimes, and they claim their customers love to configure things and they never make mistakes.

2014 Internet Hall of Fame Interviews: Paul Vixie

presented by Paul Vixie

When I contemplate “how do we get to the best possible future of the Internet,” I am thinking more in terms of inaction than action. I would like to encourage deliberate inaction in the form of keeping hands-off. I would like large companies or national governments to look at the Internet and say “This is pretty cool, and if we put our hands on it and try to make it what is gonna be best for us in our lifetimes, it’s going to cause everyone else to do likewise.”

2014 Internet Hall of Fame Interviews: Mika Hirabaru & Maemura Akinori

presented by Maemura Akinori, Mika Hirabaru

A lot of people actually were involved in JPNIC but he’s quite special. He’s really…for example, even people who are not familiar with the details of JPNIC’s history, many people never fail to point out that he was the leader in that period.