Two-sided conversation with Vinton Cerf, father of the Internet and Vice President of Google, and Andreu Veà, Digital Champion for Spain at the European Commission

The best way to predict the future is to invent it! (Alan Kay), under this title, on Monday June 20 will be held at La Salle-URL a two-sided conversation between Vinton Cerf, "father of the Internet" and Vice President of Google, and Andreu Veà, Digital Champion for Spain at the European Commission. Vinton Cerf is ahead of its time, a visionary person who imagines and helps create the future. Along with Andreu Veà they will talk about the past and envision a future that for many is already present, debating what the new transformation toward which we are heading is.

Vinton Cerf has been widely recognized as the "father" of the Internet for his continued work as a researcher and for his leadership of the community of this network of networks in its difficult years of development. It is one of the leading members of the group of pioneers who devoted their efforts to the conception of the architecture and all the TCP/IP protocols on which has been built the Internet.  In forefront and ahead of its time, a 72 years old Cerf positions itself on other issues, such as not understanding the claim of "right to forget" on the Internet, since it considers that faces the "right to know" and makes no sense technically; also he believes that the current television days are numbered and that television industry has to stop seeing the Internet as a threat when it really is a great opportunity.

He claims that all inhabitants of the planet should be able to be connected on the network, since they could to benefit all things; and in a book published recently co-authored by Cerf with David Nordfors, "Disrupting Unemployment" it is proposed to use technology and innovation to create jobs and improve job satisfaction of employees, and want to demonstrate that technology does not increase unemployment.

Currently Cerf imagines the world in 3015. He is focused on the momentum of what will be the next step in the network with Internet of Things and the creation of an interplanetary network, "InterPlanetNet" for extending the Internet into outer space.

The event, entirely in English, will be at 12 am at the Campus Conference Hall (c/ Lluçanés 43) RSVP at secretariatecnica@salleurl.edu. The next day Vinton Cerf will be invested Honoris Causa by the URL at the request of La Salle.