The latest Lift@home event is a panel discussion hosted by Cyrus Farivar in San Francisco!

On October 27 Cyrus Farivar is hosting the first of a series of monthly panel discussions called Tech Atlas SF (Facebook, Twitter) - where he will tackle global tech issues. Notable guests from the Bay Area (and sometimes farther afield) will be invited to come and chat with Cyrus at the Parisoma coworking space in San Francisco (10th/Folsom, near Civic Center BART).

40 years of Arpanet

October 29, 2009 marks the 40th anniversary of the creation of the ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet. On that day, a small unknown laboratory at UCLA unleashed a force that has since spread to every corner of the globe, revolutionizing communications forever. Just two days before the actual anniversary, we will be looking back at the early days of the ARPANET and will explore what its future holds over the next 40 years.

For this first edition (Oct. 27, 7pm), we have the privilege of featuring Katie Hafner and Brewster Kahle and the show will be broadcast live on SF Appeal and VidSF.

Panelists

Katie Hafner, author of “Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet” (Simon & Schuster, 1998), former New York Times reporter.

Brewster Kahle, founder of The Internet Archive.

Danny O’Brien, EFF, international outreach coordinator.

Cyrus Farivar, freelance tech journalist (NPR, PRI’s The World, CBC), author of the forthcoming “The Internet of Elsewhere” (Rutgers University Press, 2011)

More information on the event's homepage.

We have a last minute addition to the Lift Asia 09 program, a panel with three of the pioneers who helped create the internet industry in Korea!

20 years of Korean internet
The pioneers who built the Korean internet will share their story, reflecting on a soon-to-be 20 years old industry, offering insights on the future of a media that went from being an early adopter tool to become a society changing technology used by 40 million people in Korea.

Speakers:
• Jin Ho Hur, CEO of Neowiz, operators of Korea's second largest social network.
• Jaewoong Lee, Founder of Daum
• Soon Hyun Hwang, Vice President, NC Soft

This is quite big to have these guys on stage sharing their experience on how they helped make Korea the world's most wired country! Grab one of the remaining tickets and join us at Lift Asia on Thursday!

From the Jurassic Era of the Internet to its Futures

IP protocol inventor Vinton Cerf, who is now Vice President and Internet Evangelist at Google gave the concluding talk at Lift 09. After a quick recap of the history of the Internet, he basically gives an enthusiastic tour of its current limits (bitrot, IP address shortage) as well projects about its evolution, such as interplanetary internet though satellites.

After a quick introduction of the event, Lift founder Laurent Haug, joined on stage by Daum's founder Jaewoong Lee gives an overview of the Lift Asia 08 conference. He briefly addresses the topic choice and describe the profile of the speakers.

After a quick introduction of the event, Lift founder Laurent Haug, joined on stage by Daum's founder Jaewoong Lee gives an overview of the Lift Asia 08 conference. He briefly addresses the topic choice and describe the profile of the speakers.

Chang Kim, the CEO of TNC (Korea's leading provider of professional blog solutions) discusses the evolution of the social web by addressing four issues: the homepage evolution, the need for data portability, the difference between online/offline relationships and how content authoring is not an homogeneous skill.

Chang Kim, the CEO of TNC (Korea's leading provider of professional blog solutions) discusses the evolution of the social web by addressing four issues: the homepage evolution, the need for data portability, the difference between online/offline relationships and how content authoring is not an homogeneous skill.

Stamen Director Eric Rodenbeck shows a less known part of the Web in the shadow of social media frenziness: rich data visualization. At his studio, Eric and his team work with flows of data (from the internet and the real world) and represent them so that people better engage with the phenomena they represent. In his talk, he demonstrates how the Web can be enriched by visualization opportunities and presents various examples along this line of research.

Stamen Director Eric Rodenbeck shows a less known part of the Web in the shadow of social media frenziness: rich data visualization. At his studio, Eric and his team work with flows of data (from the internet and the real world) and represent them so that people better engage with the phenomena they represent. In his talk, he demonstrates how the Web can be enriched by visualization opportunities and presents various examples along this line of research.

For years, in the "North-West" (that is industrialized countries - usually understood as North vs. South and West vs. East), we've been babbling about the "digital gap" that is supposedly the new line of division, usually understood as running along that of economical and political development. We often have quite a simplistic idea of the situation, imagining countries that are like technological deserts, on top of being devoid of everything essentials for a normal life (that is one car per family, two TV-sets per household, all with at least 40 channels, and 4-weeks vacations in the Bahamas or in the Swiss Alps per years). We tend to forget the forest of satellite dishes that are ornementing most cities and even village buildings in what we used (politcally) incorrectly call "third world" countries. And a recent article from the Mail & Guardian, translated in French in the Courrier International, just reminds us how wrong we often are about the appropriation of "our" modern technologies by people in these countries.