Question: We have just been talking about democratization, Wikipedia and democracy. The evolution of the Internet is following several trajectories. Is it still something related to democracy or is it a mould rule?
Dr. Cerf - It's a very good question, it's not too different from talking to the Oak said its English dictionary guys that will say it is part of the language even if you don’t like it I would say we have two important lessons that we must teach people about Internet specifically and more generally about information that we get. The first lesson is that not everything that you hear and see is correct and that’s true for an old media, not just the Internet.
The second thing it seems to me is that the antidote for bad information is more information as opposed to attempting to filter in some fashion even when the information appears to be valid and it comes from a really good source we could be interested in looking for something deeper.
The good thing about the online environment is that you can change the information easily; the bad thing about the online environment is that you can change the information easily.
And so one lesson is to understand that not everything is fixed and true for old time the third lesson that I feel very strongly about is that people who think that they have done their research because they did a search on the Internet are wrong.
Someday I hope that's not true Google, hopes that it will someday get to the point where all of the information is in fact can be interrogated through the Internet even things that are locked up on paper today, someday becoming at least indexed.
So particularly for medical research if you do a Google search or any kind of search on the net saying “I'm down I want to know everything I'd need to know to get better”, well may be there are information in other media that you should be looking at that you have not found simply because you looked on the Internet. So I want to reinforce that message to young people especially who are so comfortable with the Internet it's always been there for them they can't imagine living without it and yet we have to make sure that they understand it does not contain only information on demand. It would be wonderful to imagine that all the information we ever knew and all the information that we know can be accessible by fingertips. It is not actually true, but it could be true in the future.