Unanticipated consequences & influences

XV.1 January + February 2008
Page: 74
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TIME LINESUnanticipated and contingent influences on the evolution of the internet


Authors:
Glenn Kowack

Glenn Kowack, a pioneering networking entrepreneur, is writing a book about forces underlying unforeseen consequences in uses of digital technologies. This excerpt provides a fascinating perspective on the evolution of the Internet. Glenn and I have been good friends since w e met in late 1978 in the Tampa airport, waiting for a flight to Havana to have a look at life on the other side of the Iron Curtain. We found music, color, socioeconomic equality, and daiquiris, but not much venture capital.—Jonathan Grudin "History is lived forward but observed backward."—Soren Kierkegaard In the Beginning There Was Telephony…




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