interplanetary

Vint Cerf has a vision of the Internet one day being used as a medium for communicating with other species and even those from other planets.

The man widely regarded as the father of the Internet has teamed up with musician Peter Gabriel, MIT physicist Neil Gershenfeld, and cognitive psychologist Diana Reiss to propose an "Interspecies Internet," a new platform that would facilitate communication between humans and animals.

Cerf and his partners took to the stage at the TED conference today to describe exactly what they are envisioning.

"All kinds of possible sentient beings may be interconnected,&… Read more