The internet is set to become the basis for just about every form of communication, says net pioneer Vint Cerf, in this interview with the BBC. He makes some very vital arguments in this story about the continuing rise of IP, the Internet Protocol, which most media organizations tend to relabel as “the net” because it makes more sense to a lay reader.

bq. “You are going to see a fairly dramatic increase in services riding on top of basic internet infrastructure,” he said, “You will see more and more layers of functionality showing up in the net.”