Love it when they ask computer scientists about curing disease. Love it even more when they are silly enough to drum up some sort of answer.
This interviewer is terrible, but it’s not silly to ask. On top of the use of computers for projects like folding@home, there are cases like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupted_Blood_incident
the person who wrote the article is… not a great thinker but you get some good answers from Cerf, do worth a read.
The first mistake the author makes is thst Tim Berners-Lee is not one of the fathers of the internet but of the world wide web. it runs on the application layet of the internet and came decades later.
The second mistake is corrected by Cerf. the difference between a discovery and an invention.
The number of times that I have been downvoted into oblivion for pointing out that the Internet is not the World Wide Web is too damn high.
The TCP landscape is now a hot mess of a multitude of assistance protocols. Maybe we’ll better start from scrach, with modern usecases in in mind and while learning from past mistakes.
I’m sure we can vibe something in a few minutes, I’ll solve so many problems when we are forced to use smoke signals for the latest memes.
I mean, yeah, but most protocols (like DNS, CORS) are a patch on changed usecases or missed consideration.
