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Who Put Pornographic E-mails in the Con Column?

Apr 18, 2007

Internet pioneer Vinton Cerf gave a talk this week about the good and bad things to have emerged from the Web's existence. In the pro column: "I see an enormous desire for people to put information online with no compensation," he's quoted as saying in this article from the Sacramento Bee. Examples of that: user-written Wiki entries, and technical papers such as the one reporting results from the Human Genome Project.

 

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