I loved the way this article was a conglomeration of print and audio. I enjoyed listening to the speakers in their own voices. I love the variety of points of view. I could see the global idea (and if I had been unaware, the repeated chapter lists would have reminded me!)
However, I did find it choppy in some ways. Even with the italicized transitions, I sometimes felt the authors/compilers did not finish talking about one idea before the author went into the next one.
Some other points of interest:
1. The involvement/interaction of government and political issues with the development and use of the technology – need for reliable communication and also way of preventing war – communication.
2. As someone else said, I always wondered where the name Internet came from and how Al Gore could state that he invented it.
3. “Everything else—commerce and entertainment and financial services—was secondary. We thought community trumped content.” – While this comment was about times prior to Facebook, doesn’t it also seem to fit with the evolution we are currently seeing for the common, non-scientific web-surfing populace.
4. "I tease my libertarian friends—they all think the Internet is the greatest thing. And I’m like, Yeah, thanks to government funding." This just struck me as funny.
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Teri, I agree with you, being able to listen to the speakers made the article more authentic, but it was extremely choppy. I had a hard time following the sequence, especially since much of the information seemed foreign to me. I know the Internet now...it is hard to think about it being created and all the mind power that was necessary.
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