Vinton Gray "Vint" Cerf is an American computer scientist who, together with Robert Kahn, invented the Internet. His contributions have been recognized repeatedly, with honorary degrees and awards that include the National Medal of Technology, the Turing Award, the Japan Prize, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Vint has worked for Google as its Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist since October 2005. In this role he has become well known for his predictions on how technology will affect future society, encompassing such areas as artificial intelligence, environmentalism, the advent of IPV6 and the transformation of the television industry and its delivery model. He is also working with NASA on the implementation of an interplanetary extension of the Internet.

Why LIFT
For Vint, LIFT is an opportunity to see through many eyes the strengths and weaknesses of prediction and vision about the Future. He would like to compare with others the speculative exploration of future, unexplored landscapes and to compare those speculative explorations with the reality that emerged from the past.

What Vint expects
Vint has high expectations for the conference in February. He told us that he would like to have a much clearer sense of what the future may hold, in part to enhance imagination and also to find realistic paths towards technological progress.

Web 2.0 meets Marxist (Foucaultian?) economic theory in the latest video from Austrian subversive art collective http://www.monochrom.at/english/

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http://tv.boingboing.net/2008/02/15/monochroms-marxist-s.html

Go see for yourself. The are pretty good. And smart. And on-topic.
Enjoy!