From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Sun Dec 29 2002 - 11:26:41 MST
On Sunday, December 29, 2002, at 11:57 am, Extropian Agro Forestry
Ventures Inc. wrote:
> We designed the Internet to be able to evolve into a global
> consciousness
No, we didn't. The Arpanet/Milnet/Internet was designed to be a robust
communications network that could dynamically reroute around failures
in case the Russians nuked the U.S. during the cold war. I was one of
the early network engineers on the Arpanet. I can assure you that
evolution and consciousness were not part of the design. The RFCs and
Internet Protocols still don't support or specify evolution or
consciousness today.
> I assume that the military developers are not focusing on this because
> their objectives are focused to the security issues of the day.
You act as if the military developers and the Internet developers were
not one and the same until Al Gore's Internet Act created public access
to the Internet. Before that, the Internet was military only with
educational sites allowed on if they supported the military agenda.
-- Harvey Newstrom, CISSP <www.HarveyNewstrom.com>
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