What a Difference a Decade Makes:
The Internet and Telecom Revolution
January 2005
October 2004 marked the 10th anniversary of the release of the Mosaic browser, which heralded the development of the Internet as we know it for consumer and commercial uses and users. Leading techology expert Larry Irving (WCAS76) reflects on the remarkable economic, societal, political, academic, and technological changes resulting from this decade of innovation.
Lecture time: 42 minutes
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About the PresenterLarry Irving (WCAS76)
President, Irving Information Group
A leading technology consultant, Larry Irving has made it his mission to increase the access of at-risk populations including the elderly, low-income and rural communities, and minorities to electronic resources. As an adviser to President Bill Clinton, Irving even coined the popular term for this pressing social issue: the digital divide. In 1995 Newsweek honored Irving as one of the Fifty Most Influential People in the Year of the Internet, dubbing him the Nets conscience.
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