‘Mother of Internet’ Radia Perlman argues for centralized infrastructure
after her presentation, Perlman said blockchain is more of a marketing term than an actual technology, a fad of the moment in its existing form that might have elements that play out in the future, but in essence isn't much different to a database and is often harder to use.
“I'm amazed that I am involved in this at all, because most of my thoughts are really anti blockchain,” Perlman toldPerlman’s spanning tree algorithm was published in 1985 and is fundamental to the operation of network bridges, and ultimately paved the way for the modern Ethernet to transform into a protocol that can handle large clouds.
“If there's only 50 terrorists in the country, it's no big deal, unless they can all find each other easily,” said Perlman., then added that fixing the internet is something now up to the next generation. “Sometimes when I'm giving a talk at a University, and I talk about all this doom and gloom stuff, then I smile, and I say but you're all students. If I were to say that we solved all the problems in the world, what would you have to do? So aren't you grateful to us that we gave you such a broken thing?” ®
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