Geoff Huston AM is a scientist who orchestrated the construction of the first internet network between Australian universities known as AARNet.
[3][4] After his plan was approved, Huston bought the necessary routers and set off with his colleague Peter Elford to set up these routers on each campus effectively bringing in 1990 the long awaited Australian Academic and Research Network online.
The pressure to upgrade the network was so strong that the Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee sold AARNet to Telstra in 1995.
He believes that the fundamental protocols that underpin the Web have been badly programmed and that they do not guarantee a safe internet.
Likewise he thinks that the internet has been perverted into a space in which misinformation is rampant and where a new predatory marketplace has been established.