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How bottom-up beat(s) command and control

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Lecture
  • Duration: 1 hr 35 mins
  • Publication date: 23 Feb 2015
  • Part of series IET Prestige Lecture Series, The Turing Lecture Series

Abstract

Dr Robert Pepper will discuss how the dynamics of technology policy and largely obscure decisions significantly shaped the Internet as the bottom-up driver of innovation we know today. Dr Pepper will cover the next market transition to the Internet of Everything and the interplay between policy and technology and highlighting early indicators of what the future may hold for the Internet.

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