-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of PFIR (People For Internet Responsibility) Announcement List Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 8:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [ PFIR ] Vint Cerf: "The little deaf girl"
Vint Cerf: "The little deaf girl" http://j.mp/JLMw6g (the little magazine) "Then one day, sometime in 1995, she began to research cochlear implants on the Internet's World Wide Web. She had known about this concept for at least 20 years, but the reported results had not been very encouraging. However, by 1995, the technology had advanced dramatically thanks to research on the physiology of sensory nerve signals and also to new fabrication techniques which allowed an incredible amount of computing power to be packed onto a single microchip." - - - An eloquent reminder of how technology and the Web improve people's lives in incredibly important and personal ways. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org Founder: - Data Wisdom Explorers League: http://www.dwel.org - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://vortex.com/g+lauren / Twitter: Google+http://vortex.com/t-lauren Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ pfir mailing list http://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
