Creating an indestructible network
IDEA No 2
THE SPACE RACE
On 4 October 1957, the Soviet Union launched the first man-made satellite into space, Sputnik I. Its pride hurt, the US poured billions of dollars into scientific research. One of the side-effects was the birth of the internet.
Donald Davies (left) and Paul Baran (right), the inventors of packet switching, the defining technology of the internet.
Following World War II, the US formed the RAND Corporation to continue the innovative spirit that had produced radar and the atomic bomb. RAND’s first project was the production of an artificial satellite. Unbeknown to them, the Soviet Union ...
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