Canadian Internet Forum: Government will save the Internet, which will become "simply a utility"

By Perry Hoffman

OTTAWA – The Internet will become a utility and the government will be the saviour of the Internet, Robert Herjavec, CEO and founder of The Herjavec Group and panelist on the popular TV program the Dragon’s Den, told a crowd of about 200 at a Canadian Internet Registration Authority event on Tuesday. “It’s a utility. Nobody will be doing a presentation in 2021 on the future of the Internet just like nobody does a presentation on the future of electricity, it’s simply a utility,” he said during his luncheon keynote address to the 2012 Canadian Internet Forum. The Internet in...