Kapor, Disruptive Innovations, Part 2

Link: http://groups.sims.berkeley.edu/podcast/audio/Mitch_Kapor_UCiSchool_14Nov2007.mp3

Mitch Kapor gave the second installment of his Distinguished Lecture series on Disruptive Innovations here at the UC Berkeley School of Information this past Wednesday.

This talk focused on the role of the internet and world-wide web and why the internet and networking in general seemed like a safe bet to Mitch in the early 90's. Mitch spent some time discussing the origin of the EFF and how it arose out of civil-rights interested individuals who knew each other from the Well, one of the first and most influential online communities. He then went on to talk about UUNET and attempts to bring the internet to people's homes, a far from trivial task in the early 90's.

You can get the mp3 of Mitch's talk here.