Preface: Internet Lessons from COVID19

AutorVint Cerf
Ocupação do AutorCo-designed the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet and is Chief Internet Evangelist for Google
Páginas19-21
19The Value of Internet Openness in Times of Crisis
The novel SARS-COV-2 virus that leads to COVID-19 disease is teaching us
a great many lessons about infrastructure writ large. We are discovering
weaknesses in socio-economic safety nets, in our healthcare systems, pub-
lic transportation system, our education systems and many others. Societies
around the world are organized around a presumption that people can work,
play and interact with each other in close proximity. Our dependence on this as-
sumption has been upended by a virus that propagates through proximity and
through the air and on commonly touched surfaces. Among the responses, social
distancing has become a strong recommendation around the globe. But our
physical infrastructure is operationally dependent on people being able to work
together in proximity. That includes traveling together. One has only to look at
the airline industry to see how quickly that mode of travel has evaporated.
Schools have been closed in favor of remote education and “work from home”
has become a guideline for those whose jobs permit it. For many, of course, work
requires proximity, from haircuts to grocery stores, people need to be present. If
that isn’t safe, many people cannot work and the economic impact is cata-
strophic.
To the degree that working and living can be done in some remote way, the In-
ternet has become an important component of COVID-19 response. It permits
remote interaction with customers and even patients. It allows people to order
goods and services online for delivery to doorsteps. It provides researchers with
access to global sources of information and to computing power in unpreced-
PREFACE
Internet Lessons from COVID19
Vint Cerf
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