March 4, 2021
CITI-IMMAA Seminar: Robert Metcalfe
Professor of Innovation, University of Texas-Austin
"Pathologies of Connectivity"
Bob Metcalfe has been an internet pioneer since its inception, and the inventor of ethernet, one of the core inventions that enabled the internet. He went on to found the multibillion-dollar networking company 3Com, now part of HP. He received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.
Metcalfe discussed the single most important new fact about the human condition, that we are now all connected. Connectivity has its own rules — e.g. “Metcalfe’s Law” — and its dimensions of disruptions, pathologies, and paradoxes. And now comes the ‘augmented video mobile gigabit Internet of Things’, adding another acceleration. This is a joint event with the International Media Management Academic Association.