In 1970, there was a single telephone company in the United States called AT&T, and its technology was called circuit switching, and that was all any telecom engineer worried about. — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
While the United States has never decreed that everyone has a 'right' to a telephone, we have come close to this with the notion of 'universal service' - the idea that telephone service (and electricity, and now broadband Internet) must… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
There needs to be some regime that is overseeing access to broadband to make sure we have openess; otherwise, there is a risk it… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
No matter what you do, any country in the world is going to have the ability to set its own rules internally. Any country… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
You should know that I've been hearing-impaired, not quite since birth, but I've been wearing hearing aids since I was 13, so I'm very… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
When I first joined Google in October of 2005, I was warned that I shouldn't be offended if people were doing their e-mails while… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
What would happen if our clothes were Internet-enabled? Can you imagine if you lost a sock? You could send out a search, and sock… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
Like almost every major infrastructure, the Internet can be abused and its users harmed. We must, however, take great care that the cure for… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
The immediacy of the mobile changes it from what we're accustomed to in the personal computing world to something that's instantaneous... What's interesting and… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
Internet and government is Topic A in every nation, all around the world. There is the question of getting the Internet built. That involves… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
It seems pretty clear that the Internet has an important economic role to play for China as it reaches out to the rest of… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter if it's a wireless or wired network. I think network management can be introduced that is equally sensible. — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
The net's future is far from assured, and history offers much warning. Within a few decades of Gutenberg's creation, princes and priests moved to… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
We've never lived in an environment in which it has been so easy to capture information and share it. That fact that it is… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
