Vint Cerf Blasts Off Into Space

Vint Cerf stressed extending the Internet into space, and into us, in today's discussions at Interop.

Among other things, Cerf noted that "Cars, buildings, clothing will all be instrumented... "We will be instrumented." 

As for the cloud, Cerf suggested that interoperability across cloud providers was not only key, but essential, and that  "We won't get true interoperability until customers say... I won't buy it if it isn't open.'"

He also drew attention to a big Google future in analytics.