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David Clark '66 on the Internet: How Technology Affects Society, and Vice Versa

David Clark '66, one of the primary developers of the Internet, spoke on how society affects the technology of the Internet. Technical design decisions made in the seventies have had profound impacts on enormous businesses today, but now, "the technologists are no longer in charge": the protocols must conform to social and legal boundaries that were never predicted earlier in development.

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Fathers are crying at the thought of having to repaint the Parrish foyer because students used packing tape to hang their signs instead of masking tape that could have removed without destroying the paint.


— A Parent | Unregistered, Non-Swarthmore

#2: 11/19/2008 at 7:59 p.m.

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Thanks for the input, snarkyparent1.


— Yves | Registered, Swarthmore

#3: 1/29/2009 at 7:55 p.m.

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Does anyone know if these were saved after? What group sponsored?


— matt | Unregistered, Non-Swarthmore

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