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• W1591492014 abstract "Looking Ahead The theory of the Internet is like the theory of disease before Semmelweiss and Pasteur. Throughout much of the second millennium, disease was thought to relate to humors, which also explained features of personality, behavior and symptoms of disorders. The treatments were entirely empirical and not particularly successful. Semmelweiss discovered the basis of childbed fever after observing physicians in his hospital coming from the autopsy room and treating obstetrical patients without washing their hands. The physicians were the carriers of the disease (infection). While Semmelweiss's discovery dealt with the mechanism by which the disease was passed from person to person, Pasteur made his fundamental contribution by showing that some diseases were associated with what we now call microorganisms. Their research, along with that of others, including Oliver Wendell Holmes and Robert Koch, led to the germ theory of disease. That, in turn, revolutionized the treatment of many diseases as well as their prevention. A Pre-Pasteur Internet Today, we are in a parallel pre-Pasteur world with regard to the Internet. The geniuses behind its conceptualization and its spectacular growth created a series of enormously effective developments that have been applied one on top of the other, or one after another, to give us the Internet. There is no single person, nor team, nor theory to credit. Each incremental step, however big, in the development of the Internet reflected technological opportunities or the need to deal with a problem or deficiencies in this rapidly expanding system. All of that took place against a background of inventors and investors distorting or shaping the system by their relentless demand for enormous ROI. The absence of theory gives inventors little guidance as to what might or should occur with the next improvement in the system. If one looks at the Internet today, however important and positive what it has accomplished, it is also a boundless bundle of the negative-of trouble, of deceit, of misallocated resources, and of innumerable versions of crime and uncountable annoyances. On the last point, I waste 20 minutes a day sweeping ordure from my inbox. The people involved in creating the system seem to only care about technological problems and conjugate technological solutions. The social issues and possibilities are fobbed off with the back of the hand as if those concerns were the exclusive domain of social scientists. This attitude curiously enough violates a widely taught engineering principle that the proper approach to an engineering problem is to take the system, including people and what they do, as the unit of discourse. The scientists and engineers today are imbued with a belief parallel to that of the automobile sector decades ago: Accidents are not the fault of the car, but of the nut behind the wheel. Where the Internet Falls Down Let's list some shortfalls of the system, the Internet, to appreciate how generally the absence of a theory leads to and promotes trouble for us all and even for the biggest businesses and government. Identity theft is now so common that we are all repeatedly advised to guard against it, and the process to go through to prevent it, deal with it and recover from it. Shades of Semmelweiss! The scams and various semi-legal and frankly criminal means of parting people from their money are a daily component of my e-mail. The more seemingly benign, but equally socially destructive, component is the massive amount of advertising that is going on, some of which is annoying, some of which is misleading, and some of which is to many obscene. A lot of that has to do with sex and sexuality, phone sex, naughty or worse pictures, or opportunities to fix my allegedly defective sexual apparatus. Gambling has become big. It introduces new cohorts of people, most particularly women and young people, to that recreation-and beyond that, to addiction. …" @default.
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