Jose Antonio Vargas,
10.28.2009
Technology and Innovations editor, Huffington Post
Pre-Internet, before we could follow celebrities on Google, Twitter, MySpace and Wikipedia, Michael Jackson was an unparalleled global star on the world stage, touching fans across borders, time zones and languages.
Rep. Ed Markey,
10.29.2009
Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA), Chairman, Select Committee on Energy Independence
Since its earliest days, the Internet has been guided by the principles of non-discrimination and freedom. And as it continues to evolve, we are now faced with a choice.
Andy Plesser,
10.29.2009
Executive Producer and Founder, Beet.TV
By most accounts, the Internet was born back on October 29, 1969 by two researchers, Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn. Cerf is now Google's Chief Internet Evangelist.
James Kotecki,
10.28.2009
Online Media Critic
When I paid attention to what the three candidates in New York's 23rd Congressional District were doing on YouTube, I found videos that got funnier as the candidates got more conservative.
William Pomerantz,
10.28.2009
Senior Director of Space Prizes, X PRIZE Foundation
We're clearly coming into an era where commercial competition will have a major impact on the aerospace community -- and on the financial community as well.
Mark A. Shiffrin and Avi Silberschatz,
10.28.2009
Mark is a lawyer and writer based in Connecticut and Avi is a Professor of Computer Science at Yale University
The U.S. Department of Commerce has announced that the United States has agreed to give up oversight of the ICANN, a non-profit organization loosely regulates the protocols of the Internet.
Barry Schwartz,
10.28.2009
Professor of Psychology, Swarthmore College
The lay attitude, "naïve reductionism," assumes that the causes of behavior lie in states of the brain, not in states of psychology. This is a profound mistake.
Don Tapscott,
10.28.2009
Author, Consulting company CEO, Advisor to government and business leaders.
Of all the technology marvels of 1969, the Internet has been a late bloomer. Email was introduced in 1971, but the first web browser didn't come along until 1990.