1) How did packet switching work in the time befor the internet, wouldn't there need to be some sort of communication channel in place for that to be possible?
2) How do Internet Protocols (IP) address and route packets? And why is a session not established before the data is exchanged, wouldn't it be the other way around?
3) When Canada and the few European countries got connected/access to the Internet did they have to pay for it, and if so who did they pay?
4) Did Berners-Lee inventor of the World Wide Web make money for his discovery? The article says that no one entity owns the internet, then why do people have to pay to host their webpages?
5) Did browser companies like Netscape and Explorer have access to the information that people placed on the user interface? And has this changed at all from then to current day?
Tools for Thought: Chapter 4, 5, 6 (Rheingold)
1) Why are there only two values in the logical calculation system that Boole proposed for logic calculations, couldn't something in human reasoning fall somewhere inbetween?
2) What does Rheingold mean when he says that logical operations can be seen as physical devices that emit an output pulse?
3) Since the Sun is the reason we live in a not closed system, if the sun exploded one day and was gone, would our system become a closed system where we would feel the effects instantaneously?
Engineering a New Order: (Hacker)
1) Do most other countries provided their military officers with higher education and put as much as an emphasis on military science as the US does?
2) It is said that higher authority comes from the military, but haven't most societies always had different forms of authority and control?
3) How did the process of industrialization draw on military models? What is an example of this direct connection?
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