Thirteen years ago, Vint Cerf joined us at a Harvard workshop as the NREN (National Research and Education Network) was debating opening up to commercial users. He had big ideas then, and has some more big ideas today. 

Zach Tumin of the Financial Services Technology Consortium sent me this link to a recent ComputerWorld interview with Vint: http://www.gcn.com/25_2/interview/38005-1.html

A provocative Cert[ification]: "I believe that 99 percent of the Internet's applications have yet to be invented."

I think he's probably right. Comparing the Internet and world-wide-web to the roll-out of electricity, the second 15 years of the process -- those we're heading into now -- should be the ones with the biggest long-term applications and social impacts. This should be particularly true for governments, as they're generally slow-out-of-the-box.

Check out what Vint thinks. More importantly: What do you see as the biggies just over the horizon?