Internet preparing to go into outer space
Internet preparing to go into outer space – Yahoo! News
After expanding across Earth, the Internet is now set to spread into outer space to reach parts no network has gone before, one of its co-creators predicted Wednesday.
ADVERTISEMENTVinton Cerf said the proposed “interplanetary” Internet would allow people an ability “to access information and to control experiments taking place far away” from Earth.
Expanding into the solar system would bring new rules and regulations too, he told an annual Seoul forum, saying he and other experts were working on a set of standards designed to guide space-era Internet communications.
“Finally, the Internet can take us where no network has gone before,” said Cerf, who is Google’s vice president and chief internet evangelist,