Looking ahead with tech icon Bob Metcalfe

March 19, 2009 | Source: PhysOrg.com

The goal in the next six or seven decades should be to produce “squanderably abundant, cheap and clean energy,” says Internet pioneer Bob Metcalfe.

There were innovations no one saw coming that made the Internet possible and better — the semiconductor, the PC, packet-switching, Ethernet, TPC/IP protocol. There will be surprises in the energy field, too, he belives.