Learning from our past and reevaluating our present, a recent World Affairs Council of Philadelphia (WAC) event opened discussion for what’s next in the world of information access.

Craig Snyder, president and CEO of the local council, set the tone for the gathering at the Arden Theater on Jan. 28, promising a lively discussion on “one of the driving forces in world affairs in the 21st century” — the internet.

Panelists for WAC’s “The Future of the Internet” event that night included Vinton “Vint” G. Cerf, VP and chief internet evangelist at Google, widely regarded as one of the “Fathers of the Internet” as co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the internet; Judith Donath, author of “The Social Machine” and advisor for the Berkman Klein Center for the Internet & Society at Harvard University; Andrew Mariniello, a partner at Morgan Lewis & Bockius; and Ram Mohan, the chief operating officer of Afilias.

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