Wanted to share something that I read recently that the Feedweave community might appreciate.
But first, A brief background on **Bob Taylor.**
> Bob Taylor was an American Internet pioneer, who led teams that made major contributions to the personal computer, and other related technologies. He was director of ARPA's Information Processing Techniques Office from 1965 through 1969, founder and later manager of Xerox PARC's Computer Science Laboratory from 1970 through 1983. Taylor (along with Licklider) wrote "The Computer as a Communication device" in **1968 **_and was one of the earliest to discuss the power of networked computers. _
In an interview that took place in 1999 — When discussing the critical remarks of Doug Engelbart and Alan Kay on the design of the World Wide Web, Rob Rheingold posed a question to **Bob Taylor **that led to an interesting answer.
**What did the original designers of the internet get right?**
> "Many people today are worried about the Internet becoming less democratic, perhaps centralized or under a few people's control, at some point in the future. I don't think that's going to happen because of Wes Clarke, who came up with the idea of the IMP, the Interface Message Processors that enabled the packets to find their way around the network without central control. Larry Roberts and other people were talking about having ARPAnet controlled by a central computer in Nebraska. IMP makes it very difficult to centralize control of the network. If there had been one computer controlling ARPAnet, we would have already had cause to worry. That single architectural foundation to packet-switched networks makes it difficult for anyone to control the Internet. Nobody ever calls Wes Clarke the father of the Internet, but he has as much right to that title as anyone who claims the title today."
Taylor recognizes the monumental difference it made to go with the IMP architecture vs. the central "host" that was supposed to be in Nebraska.
I wonder what Taylor would think about the internet today.