Glenn Ricart, a board member at the Internet Society, warned also of potential dangers.
Verizon and Time Warner unveiled their latest anti-piracy plans at a panel discussion hosted by the Internet Society in New York on Thursday.
"In so many ways, he was an adult, even then, with a kind of intense, fast intellect that really made me feel like he was part and parcel of the Internet society, " Doctorow wrote.
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In short, the non-proprietary feature of the standards, maintained by volunteer groups of engineers under the mantle of The Internet Society, is what accounts for their phenomenal trajectory and velocity over the last fifteen years.
It may, as Marshall suggested, take a generation to see how the Internet reshapes society and human behaviour once it becomes a mature technology.
What is new is how all the old terms like trading, sharing, bartering and leasing are being transformed by the opportunities our connected society and the Internet now enables us.
Jason Kaufman, a research science fellow with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, examined the Facebook profiles of a group of college students over four years and found that even within Facebook, there's evidence of self-segregation.
Zeynep Tufekci, a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, points out correctly that the new policy increases the amount of content available.
Ubiquitous, fast and cheap access to the Internet has upended Korean society in dramatically unexpected ways.
Under the circumstances, shutting down the incendiary hate speech online was warranted, explained Sunil Abraham, the director of the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) in Bangalore.
No question that the work Cerf and others did to make the Internet possible has been incredibly beneficial to society, but the lack of authentication gives the bad guys too much cover, making many of their actions virtually untraceable.
The last great myth of our society is that anything on the internet is free.
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He also runs ProjectVRM at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.
But according to John Palfrey, executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, complying with government censoring efforts is a "wildly expensive thing" for Internet firms to do.
"The truly disconnected corners of the globe are shrinking, and shrinking rapidly, " says Ethan Zuckerman, who studies technology use in the developing world as a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
But neither Myanmar nor any other country has ever attempted a sudden shutdown of the Internet, and the cutoff from the outside world was unsustainable, according to John Palfrey, executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School.
The kind that makes traditionalists wave their canes and clogs up Internet message boards about the coarsening of society.
Further involvement of media and civil society actors within the Internet Governance process was also recommended.
"Kids today are a part of this new society, where the Internet and computers are a part of everyday life, " O'Neil says.
He and Cohen have collaborated on a book about the Internet's role in shaping society called "The New Digital Age" that comes out in April.
So the United States stands behind the current approach which harnesses the best of governments and private sector and civil society to manage the technical evolution of the Internet in real time.
So great is the perceived threat of T2 that it has driven Travelocity into the arms of the American Society of Travel Agents, the very fuddy-duddies the Internet was supposed to make obsolete.
The other is the spread of the internet and mobile telephony that have transformed society.
Today Zimmermann is a fellow at the Stanford Law School Center For Internet and Society, and focuses on Zfone, an encryption scheme for VoIP phone calls.
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If countries want to be connected to the Internet and be part of the global society, they have an obligation to investigate cybercriminal events and cooperate in bringing hackers to justice.
"The year 2000 was the year of real breakthrough of Internet in Europe, " said Erkki Liikanen, commissioner for the information society.
The award follows criticism from the new president of the 360-year-old society, Sir Robert May, that the organisation had overlooked the internet inventor.
Recently, the Chinese government published a white paper on the Internet, praising its value and contribution to society.
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Politics plays a role in every aspect of our society unfortunately, including technology and the internet.
"The freedoms offered by the internet should never extend to protecting those who derive pleasure from harming the most innocent section of our society, " he said.
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