In today’s featured COSM video, telecom expert Dan Berninger facilitates a discussion examining the past, present, and future of the Internet. Together they outline a compelling picture of a next generation internet that is less cumbersome, more efficient, and more secure. Panelists include Gurdeep Pall, Corporate VP of Microsoft, Dr. Bob Metcalfe, internet pioneer, entrepreneur, and Professor of Innovation at the University of Texas at Austin, and Dan Mapes, Founder of Verses Technologies.

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We’ve been sharing a number of lectures from past COSM conferences. This video is just one of many you can find at the Bradley Center’s YouTube page. There you’ll find several lectures, interviews, and panels dealing with issues that range from economics, Big Tech, and artificial intelligence. Notable speakers include 2022 Kyoto Prize winner Carver Mead, venture capitalist Peter Thiel, and George Gilder, co-founder of Discovery Institute and author of Life After Capitalism: The Meaning of Wealth, the Future of the Economy, and the Time Theory of Money.