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The internet is the way that we connect with each other in business and individually and in society.
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The internet was the idea that there was one interconnected network of networks that was open to everyone that was built
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on common open protocols that anyone could join who could speak those protocols wherever they were whatever
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they were doing. The first implementation of the key technological innovation which is called
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packet switch networking was in 1969 in the ARPANET which was a government research network. But it wasn't until
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the mid 1990s that we had things like graphical web browsers or even the worldwide web. So this idea that now we
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have an information superighway that could potentially connect people in powerful ways that was a source of
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tremendous excitement at that point. The thing about the internet is that it truly is everywhere. How can you think
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about doing business today without the internet? It used to be that anytime you wanted to connect with someone else that
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you were working with or potentially a customer, you had to pick up the phone and call them. We didn't have email. We
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didn't have any way to get a document from one machine to another most cases other than what we affectionately call
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the sneaker net. You put it on a disc and you walk over there. The internet is truly the one connective tissue for
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business in every industry in every place. It's what enables us to do business in new and more efficient ways
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that we never really could have thought of before. We really can't imagine AI as it has
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taken off, especially generative AI and foundation models without the internet. It was only because we had the ability
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to build these massive data centers that aggregated information and aggregated computing and could pull together
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resources in the cloud on the internet that AI as we know it today could emerge. It was really only because we
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had an environment where companies could build these AI platforms and then make them available to people all throughout
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the world. That's the internet. And the AI technology is its own distinct technology. But it would not possibly
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ever have emerged and certainly had the impact that it's had so quickly if the internet was not there to build on.
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50 years from now it will be even hard to remember that story that this was something that happened almost by
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accident that we have one network that is nonetheless decentralized so anyone can connect to it around the world
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through open protocols that was kind of a miracle exciting thing about the internet was it wasn't just the internet
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that got launched originally it became a platform for voice and video and the cloud and now AI all of it builds on the
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internet because the internet is designed that way it's designed to Connect things and designed to be a
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platform.