ashok _ wrote: [ on 10:26 PM 10/13/2007 ]
> Well he did create the Internet didn't he? That sure changed the
environment a
> lot.
http://amsterdam.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0009/msg00311.html
is a note by Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn (both of them reasonable
candidates for having "invented the internet", to the extent that any
single individual is) on this issue, which essentially takes Gore's
side. Recommended reading.
I demand a re-count of the votes, and the nobel prize handed over to Bush !!!
I rather like Bruce Sterling's reaction to the news:
The good news is there's at least one American
statesman left whom the world considers of Nobel
class caliber. Gore's a kind of climate
Solzhenitsyn in the midst of a dark regime.
People from outside the Soviet Union used
to look at Nobelist Solzhenitsyn and think:
"Well, we can't give up on 'em; here's this
heroic guy endlessly scraping up and archiving
true data about gulags and torture and prisons,
even when the regime denies such things exist."
In the continental superpower biz, what goes
around comes around.
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