Tram Town
Thursday, December 28, 2006
| Category: (Again with the) Gore This observation from someone who goes by the name pat in comments over at the Climate Audit site which is run by Steve McIntyre: [Al Gore] only supported the Internet by mistake. Read “Where Wizard[s] Stay Up Late” (a history of the Internet). Al Gore was recruited to help get congressional funding for communications infrastructure - which he did. However it is clear he thought he was supporting centralization not decentralization and certainly not distributed computing. Al was a mainframe guy. The World Wide Web is a Libertarian kind of idea. That’s hardly Al Gore’s native political stance.Where Wizards Stay Up Late look like a really interesting book and it is going on to my next Amazon order. McIntyre, BTW, is the man who with Ross McKittrick managed to extract the famous Hockey Stick from a random data set. And since we're on the topic of presidents, yes, DB, Ford was the president who sometimes stumbled. The only reference on YouTube, however, appears to have been taken down recently. |
