"We like the public Internet and we intend to use it, " Mr. Schmidt said.
So we know they like the internet, and they like to be involved in the conversation.
If millions of people send just a little bit back to the grid, peer-to-peer just like we send information on the internet, that's distributed power.
By the time that evolution occurs, there will likely be some other paradigm shift in how we create and use information anyhow (much like how the Internet changed the way we work).
We imagined a future that looked a lot like what we were being promised throughout the economy as it sped into the Internet era.
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Then we changed the default user name and password, and within minutes the router was connected to the Internet and we were surfing away like nothing had changed, feeling oddly like we had missed some complicated step in the process.
At year's end, we're connected to each other and to the Internet like never before.
The takeaway: think about our internet data like we think about our physical money.
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"Eventually we would like it to be distributed and also deliverable to individual users over the Internet, so it's accessible to people in the home, " Muntz said.
Because of that, it seems unlikely the change will boost the numbers of internet darlings like Community or Arrested Development, but we can dream, right?
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It's what the Internet will be like for the rest of us someday, if we're lucky.
While there's some comfort to be had in knowing that technologies like satellite internet access are available if the lines go dark once again, we just hope that peace comes to the country instead.
We need more efforts like the recent Connect Africa summit in Rwanda, which focused on bringing Africans affordable wireless broadband Internet access.
In the old days of television or desktop Internet advertising, advertising was like a painting that we could all admire without seeing ourselves.
The Internet stocks are like cellular telephony a decade ago: Nobody predicted the high saturation rates we're seeing in cellular today.
In the Xbox 360 dashboard you'll get a simple interface that works like a touchpad, with areas for tapping on the four controller face buttons. (It looks a lot like BlackBerry Remote.) This is the same interface for operating Internet Explorer, which, as we pointed out earlier is actually made possible by this interface.
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