Leonard Kleinrock, First Internet Connection

"Dr. Kleinrock has a big goal – he wants to replicate the paradigm shift of the Internet. When he helped to create the Internet, it had the luxury of 20 years to incubate and grow in an environment that was not driven by greed or speculation. It was carefully curated before it became subject to the profit motive because it was the domain of engineers and academics who were creating a new underlying network technology. It had a very stable foundation before it became a commercial tool that reached billions of people and provided enormous benefits along with certain dark side detriments.  Today’s new technologies do not have that luxury. They appear quickly in a financially-driven commercial environment. For example, blockchain had no time to be curated, having been born imprinted with a dollar sign. Its development is being driven by speculators while at the same time offering the potential of innovative applications and technology". [source]