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Ethernet Inventor Bob Metcalfe on how online video will change the world

When Bob Metcalfe talks about the future of the Internet, people take note. He invented Ethernet, the international standard for local-area networking. Technology Review caught up with Metcalfe last night at the opening reception for the Emerging Technologies Conference. He told us why he thinks Internet video could have a positive environmental impact by reducing the need to “press the flesh.”

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