My reaction to a lot of the current situation that we're in is based in part on a serious concern that the present administration's course ignores reality.

There has been a substitution of ideology for fact and scientific and engineering data in this administration.

The Internet of Things tell us that a lot of computer-enabled appliances and devices are going to become part of this system, too: appliances that you use around the house, that you use in your office, that you carry around with yourself or in the car. That's the Internet of Things that's coming.

I expect to see a lot of household appliances on the Net by 2010, as well as autos and other mobile devices.

There is a project that's underway called the interplanetary Internet. It's in operation between Earth and Mars. It's operating on the International Space Station. It's part of the spacecraft that's in orbit around the Sun that's rendezvoused with two planets.

Choosing a single most important development is incredibly hard to do because a lot of different things had to happen before the Internet could be deployed in the fashion it is today.