We had the pleasure of meeting Vint Cerf and Bob Kakn, the two men who were responsible for inventing the Internet last week. The two inventors, along with our favorite gal friends, Robin Raskin and Nancy Klosek, were inducted into the Consumer Technology Association Hall of Fame, at a dinner in NYC. Robin Raskin is a popular tech journalist, and founder of Living In Digital Times, a conference and exhibition company, and Nancy Klosek was a favorite tech journalist for Audio Video International and Dealerscope. Both are trade publications.

Robin and Nancy were thrilled to be recognized alongside Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn, who co-invented the TCP/IP protocols responsible for originating DARPA’s Internet program. They’re better known as the “Fathers of the Internet.” Everyone at the dinner will forever remember Vint Cerf saying, “when kids say old people don’t understand the internet, I say, oh yeah? I invented it!!”

So many senior members of the tech industry stood up and applauded. It was a very gratifying moment and should be told to as many young folks as possible.

This story explains it all.

Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn, co-inventors of TCP/IP protocol

by Sean Buckley | Oct 4, 2011 7:06amShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInEmailPrint

While it’s true that both Vinton Cerf and Bob Kahn made of their many of their own notable accomplishments, it was their partnership that drove the creation of the TCP/IP protocol as one of the core components of the Internet.

The partnership can be traced back to when Cerf was a graduate student at UCLA and Kahn, who was working on hardware for the ARPANET. But it wasn’t until 1973 that when Kahn, who as then working for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), rejoined his UCLA colleague to create the TCP/IP protocol.

There were two major events that led Kahn to start developing the TCP/IP protocol.

During the International Computer Communication Conference in the fall of 1972 when he was working at the Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) within ARPA, Kahn demonstrated the ARPANET by connecting 20 different computers. This was described as “the watershed event that made people suddenly realize that packet switching was a real technology.”

But it was in 1973 when Kahn was working on a satellite network project that he got the inspiration to develop what eventually became the TCP protocol. Initially, the TCP protocol was meant to be a replacement for the ARPANET’s NCP protocol. All of his work on TCP/IP helped laid the groundwork for open-architecture networking, a concept that enables any computer and network to freely speak with one another despite the hardware or software they use on their particular system.

In 1976, Cerf joined Kahn at DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) and stayed there until 1982. Then, like fellow Internet pioneer Larry Roberts, he realized that packet switching and the Internet had commercial applicability, so he joined MCI, now Verizon Business (NYSE: VZ), where he developed the MCI Mail service that was connected to the Internet.

Along with driving the commercialization of e-mail, Cerf was a key figure in forming and funding the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), an organization that manages IPv4 and IPv6 address spaces and assigns address blocks to regional Internet registries such as the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN).

In the early 1990s, the two men synched up again to form the Internet Society (ISOC), an organization that aims to drive awareness around Internet-related standards, education and policy.

Their influence continues to resonate in 2011 through their activism and corporate work.

Since 2005, Cerf has served as Google’s (Nasdaq: GOOG) vice president and chief Internet evangelist and on the UN’s Broadband Commission for Digital Development, which has set a goal of expanding the availability of broadband services. Meanwhile Kahn serves as the Chairman, CEO and President of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI) that is set on providing funding for research and development for the National Information Infrastructure.

I just got back to Miami Beach from NYC. The streets, the restaurants, the theaters. the cabarets houses, the museums, the art galleries, and the event venues are all filled with people. The city is totally vibrant. The only place where ghosts are dancing 24/7 are in the thousands of offices that are still empty, and probably will be for a long time. I just can’t imagine what it’s like having to pay for office space that is not being used. It used to cost us over $25,000 a month in rent for our PR agency.

We did that for 25 years. I get the heebie-jeebies when I think about the money we had to generate just to cover our overhead. For many companies that amount of money is small change compared to what they have to spend to keep their office lights on. Look at the space ship building Apple built. It was the dream office building Steve Jobs always wanted. Now it’s practically an empty shell.

As time goes on, more and more folks will return to the office just to get out of their homes. However, it took Covid-19 to make us all aware of the joys of working remotely. This is a concept that many of us will worship forever

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Only 28% of New York office workers are back in the office 

• Only 28% of Manhattan office workers are back at their desks and fewer than half will be back by January, according to a new survey.
• Employers expect that 49% of office workers will return on an average weekday by January, according to a survey of 188 big employers in Manhattan by the Partnership for New York City. 
• More than a third of employers expect their office space needs in Manhattan will decline over the next five years, according to the poll. 
• Continued weakness in the office sector could prove costly for New York City’s budget, as it means a loss in property taxes.

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According to the survey, more than a third of employers expect their office space needs in Manhattan will decline over the next five years, and 13% expect a reduction in their New York City workforce.

“Post-pandemic, remote work is here to stay,” said Kathryn Wylde, president and CEO of the Partnership for New York City, the city’s leading business group. “There is going to be a permanent relook at keeping offices and jobs in New York City.”

Office vacancy rates in New York City are now at a 30-year high of 18.6%. The value of the city’s commercial real estate has fallen by $28.6 billion, or 16.6%, reducing property tax revenue by up to $1.7 billion this fiscal year, according to a recent report from New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli. Property taxes are the largest source of revenue for New York City, and commercial property is the largest source of property taxes, so continued weakness in the office sector could prove costly for the city’s budget.

While commercial real estate landlords and developers say leasing activity is strong and workers will return to the office, many employers say the city’s high taxes, long commutes and high costs could prolong any recovery in the commercial sector.

By January, only 13% of Manhattan office workers are expected to be in the workplace five days per week, according to the survey. A third will be in three days per week, 15% will be in two days per week, 7% will be in one day per week and 21% will still be fully remote.

The industry with the highest expected average daily attendance in January will be real estate (80%) followed by law firms (61%) and financial services (47%). The industries with the lowest expected attendance in January will be accounting (36%), consulting (30%) and tech (24%).

Wylde said that in addition to workers staying remote, the city is grappling with high-earning business owners and financial partners leaving New York for tax reasons and taking their companies and workforce with them.

“The danger is that when the high earners leave, they take operations with them,” Wylde said. “So we hear now of operations in asset management and other areas, not just individual high earners, but the real business operations moving to Texas, to Tennessee, to Florida.”

Wylde said 22% of financial firms plan to reduce their New York City-based workforce in the next five years — an alarming number, given that financial-services are the economic backbone of New York City.

“What’s going to happen over the next 5 to 10 years in terms of our economic and tax dependence on a population that now knows its highly mobile,” she said.

Meet my client Susan Warner. This is a very unusual assignment. My job is to help her tell her story to the world. We are using broadcast, internet, print, in-person talks, zoom meetings, special appearances, essays, and anything we can think of.

Susan just did an interview with “Passport Mommy” that dives into two subjects that many of us think about all the time but are too skittish to discuss, death and sex. Susan tells us about coping with death and recovering and then the dating and the relationship journey.

Susan Warner is an educator, wife and mother. Unfortunately, she has suffered profound loss with the death of her son and husband six months apart. The catastrophic loss was almost too much to bear. Luckily, Susan shares how she got through it all and what life is like dating at an older age during these times.

Susan is suddenly single

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Michelle Jerson is the host of the national radio show, “Passport Mommy,” heard on 55 stations with an audience of 3.2 million. It is also a podcast and can be found on your favorite podcasting platform. Passport Mommy is a magazine style talk show that covers topics ranging from travel, wellness, and finance to education and lifestyle. Motherhood is a journey and Michelle aims to bring enlightening guests to her audience to help educate and enrich their lives.

The following story appeared in the Washington Post. This was a frequent topic many of us discussed over the years as we spent many hours of our lives going back and forth to school and then to work. If you want to calculate how many hours of your life you spent commuting, click here.https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2021/commute-calculator-pandemic. If you have trouble opening it, let me know.

For many people who have been able to work from home during the pandemic, the prospect of commuting to the office again can feel like a challenge. But fear not: Graphics columnist Sergio Peçanha has developed a handy interactive calculator to help people better understand how much time they spend in transit.

My one-hour commute to and from work each day, for example, adds up to more than 10 full days each year — enough time to watch 150 films, or all of “Squid Game” 30 times. By the end of my career, that might add up to 14 months of my life. Yikes!

But time is just one way to quantify the cost of commuting. As Peçanha points out, transportation is the largest contributor of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. And the financial costs of office work add up significantly, especially when you include the price of buying lunch or coffee.

In 2019, Americans spent an average of about one hour commuting to and from work each day. That may not have seemed like a big deal before the pandemic, but it has become a hard sell for many who’ve worked from home for more than a year now and learned that the show went on just fine from a distance.

If you are an American with average commute time, you would spend about 250 hours in transit each year — that adds up to more than 10 days. By the end of your career, you might spend nearly a year of life commuting.

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If instead of commuting an hour, you used that time learning a language, in one year you would probably be fluent enough to get by in a foreign country. In a lifetime, you could learn multiple languages, become a black belt and a life-of-the-party guitar player.

If you spent the time binge-watching Netflix, one year of commuting would be enough to watch more than 150 films. Or all nine episodes of “Squid Game” back to back 30 times.

You could also spend that time with friends, gardening, getting fit, cooking, knitting, sleeping or doomscrolling. Even people who do something pleasant or useful during their commutes could find a more comfortable place to do those same things.

Or, if you’re like me, you could scatter all those activities throughout your days, because you’re too undisciplined to make anything really useful with the time you just found. What you do doesn’t really matter: The point is that the pandemic gave that time back to us. It makes no sense to lose it again.

And time is just one way to quantify what we lose if we revive the commute. There’s also the pollution we produce and the money we squander and the loss of the unmatchable joy that comes with working in our pajamas.

Transportation is the largest contributor of greenhouse gases in the United States, mostly from cars, SUVs and small trucks. The average annual cost of commuting is somewhere between $2,000 and $5,000, depending on where you live. If you spend even $10 more a day on coffee and lunch at work, that adds up to about $2,500 per year (eating at home costs about half that).

As for the pajamas, they are just a metaphor for the small privileges of working from home that add up to quality of life — from keeping up with the laundry to spending more time with people we love and working with our pets nearby.

It is hard to argue that the benefit of commuting more than once a week or so is worth the toll on the planet, on the purse and on your quality of life. I don’t mean that meeting colleagues in person is not useful, sometimes important or even fun. The first time I saw my boss after a year and a half, I hugged him — and I meant it.

But when we used to meet every day there was no hug. What is the point of going back to a life where you don’t regularly hug your boss?

Methodology

Calculations were based on 250 work days per year, 40-hour workweeks, eight-hour workdays and a career length of 40 years. The calculation for full-length feature films was based on 90 minutes run time.

Sources: U.S. Census; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Netflix.

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I heard this story a few months ago from my friend Ron Abel but actress/singer Linda Purl told it last night to the audience at Birdland. She and actor Patrick Duffy found love again over Zoom during the pandemic. You can read all about it below.

Our artist client, Allen Hirsch, has accomplished the impossible. He paints on mesh, or any composition made out of strings, to show what it’s like to see the world through a structure like a fence. As an artist, he feels we see surrounding reflections on a fence that we never would have noticed if we just looked at the landscape in front of us.

Allen accomplishes this by placing spots of paint on the strings that make you think he created the painting on the canvas. It’s quite remarkable. Very few artists have the skill to paint this way. Once you see the painting in person, or below, you will still think that it was created on the canvas. It’s a very tricky visual experience.

Why am I writing about this? Until you enter Allen’s world, and hang around for a while, you have no idea how many creative endeavors he has been involved in. I found the string paintings in his SoHo loft a few years ago and it has taken this long to get an assortment of them to show you. Our PR agency represents Allen for his smartphone case inventions. Called HANDL New York, the accessories give you the perfect grip and kickstands for all kinds of important uses. Only an artist like Allen could have figured this out. Read his bio below.

Allen Hirsch is an American painter, writer, inventor, entrepreneur, and New York City developer.

He was born in Encino, California in 1959. He received a B.F.A at Syracuse University, and also attended Camberwell School of Arts in London, Skowhegan School, New York Studio School and received a M.A from Rosary College in Florence, Italy in 1986.

In 1982, he was discovered outside the Whitney Museum exhibiting a begging self portrait by Eugene Mihaesco. He was then asked to do covers for TIME Magazine from between 1983 to 1991.

In 1993, he painted the inaugural portrait of Bill Clinton for the National Portrait Gallery in Washington. The painting subsequently hung in the White House during his tenure.

He won a Society of Illustrators Award for “Drugs” cover of TIME in 1986 and received the Hitchcock Award for Landscape Painting from the National Academy Museum in 1997.

In the 1980s and 1990s, he painted portrait commissions and self-portraits, exploring the brain’s projection on the right and left sides of the face, painting with left and right hands to express “the duality of the psyche.” He developed a technique “New Cubism” where the image is formed and buried at the same time and invented “String Paintings.”

Allen has also been making digital art since the first Macintosh came out in 1984.

Allen traveled frequently to Venezuela from 1995-2015 and painted the life on the coast of African descendants brought there as slaves in the 18th Century. It was there he rescued Benjamin, an orphaned capuchin monkey and brought him to New York.

A documentary on their life and art together called “Long Live Benjamin” was produced by the New York Times and won an Emmy in 2017.

Painting from life, Allen has documented many of the dramatic events in NYC including 9/11, the Hurricane Sandy blackout, and the COVID 19 shutdown. He also created a series of scores of paintings of his view on Lafayette Street in different lights and seasons.

He has exhibited at Allan Stone Gallery, Louis Stern Fine Arts, Monique Goldstrom Gallery , American Art Gallery, the National Academy Museum and the National Portrait Gallery.

Allen has written for the New York Times and other publications. He has several books in development on his art, monkey and a new study on Pieter de Hooch.

In 2013, Allen invented HANDL, a new way to ergonomically hold and stand cellphones based on his experience with hand movement and touch projection in art. HANDL has been used by the world’s top celebrities and athletes and currently in mass retailers in the USA and abroad. Allen has over 30 patents involving cell phone holding apparatus around the world.

Allen purchased an important SoHo retail space in 2003 and conceived of a diner/basement experience that resulted in La Esquina, one of downtown NYC’s most popular nightspots. He also founded The Kaaterskill, currently an inn and wedding venue in upstate New York

My new book project. My client/author is wearing the blue sweater and our publisher is sporting the beard. Look closely. He is the son of a very famous actor. He lives in Woodstock.

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So acceptable then. So unacceptable today. Thank you Michael Sommer for reminding us that we have progressed, even though most days it doesn’t feel like it.

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