tl;dr: Vint Cerf, co-architect of TCP/IP and Google's chief internet evangelist for 20 years, is retiring next week at age 83, as announced at the Laude Institute's Open Frontier conference. Speaking on a panel about durable open source systems, Cerf predicted that the rise of AI agents will force a return to standardized protocols and interoperability, arguing that natural language is too ambiguous for reliable agent-to-agent communication.