We are on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the annual Emerging Technology Conference organized by Technology Review. At the kick-off dinner at the MIT Museum, I had the good fortune to interview Robert Metcalfe, the pioneering computer scientist who invented Ethernet back in 1973 -- before that he was a principal researcher at MIT on ARAPNET - the early Internet.
Bob tells Beet.TV he's long had a vision of the Internet as a delivery platform for video. Sure video takes more bandwidth, but it's still all about the Ethernet packets which carry the data, he notes.
Among the most important implications is the prospect of energy savings by facilitating communications through video interaction.
See this video on Beet.TV:
http://www.beet.tv/2006/09/internet_pionee.html
ehat year was this interview please?
musa1274 4 years ago