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Technological search:
All Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
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XML: the most powerful productivity tool ever imaged:
I can write this text, I could insert picture or sound. I can create links ( hyper- links ) or imbedded functions ( scripts in several languages ) - e-mail it or post it to a web site that has scripts to run different functions. It is getting easier but still has lots of bugs.
Microsoft is again in a catch up position. Power corrupts and the lack of real time painful competition is what corrupted power means.
The NOISE group of Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun - Corel and Everyone else had the model right years ago. With bandwidth ( such as private networks - intranets, extra-nets, and other high speed networks ) the network becomes the system. Each member of the system - clients and servers are integrated through common languages or objects.
When you open a web page, hypertext and imbedded objects can connect functions - edit, ( word processing ) analyze ( search, data bases ) and interoperate with each other using voice, images, data and text.
The idea is that a person interested in the service manual for a piece of equipment or operational system - a service engineer or client at a PC, or in the field using a lap top, wireless phone or other device not only could look up information but order parts, update systems, see graphic display, talk to experts, hold a meeting between the consultant and the providers and the home system would gather information about what is going on and what works and what doesn’t.
Providers of services - software, engineering, analysis, B2B, OEM, etc.. could all deal with each other using different languages, platforms and systems. This is the most powerful productivity tool ever imaged. System can adjust and improve in real time. A contractor in the field can order supplies from the best low cost provider, check delivery, pay accounts, check balances, talk to sub-contractors, revise plans and schedules, have the design changed and fixed, and 1000 and more details. No one can build a house without a cell phone - can any service be provided without real time communications ?
Who can do this unless they spend lots of money for services and software ?
The service providers can MS.net, oracle.net, IBM.net Sun.net, AOL.net, apple.net, excite.net, go.net, yahoo.net, - plug and play just like the cell phone. For $ 50 a month your ISP becomes an interactive system to other services.
The contractor enters his phone book, calendar, and buys services from engineers, accountants, and get free services from suppliers, banks, sub contractors, etc. Those connected have a great advantage over those out of the loop.
How about a search attached to stories.
The idea of references is still useful but you can also do a up to the minute search by a hyper text link that includes the key words -
http://nt.excite.com/ntd.dcg?UID=A61BAC843351654Cpage=create
http://nt.excite.com/ntd.dcg?UID=A61BAC843351654C&page=show&topic=Nano%20Technology&sb=summary
Windows in the cloudy sky:
What Microsoft wants to do is control the servers with a MS provided next, next generation NT platform operating system called XML but not open and universal.
The .net system works with devices that have .net codes built it. Microsoft products will run on .net as a server - client interface - XML files, XML data base, XML storage, XML index, id, calendar, updates, notifications, out in the cloud on MS XML server software doing object imbedded codes.
The applications become notations or services on the page.
The universal canvas API. Hardware drives, across all the devices and the .net controller in the a cloud. Development applications are built on the XML kits connected to the browser. This was Netscape’s vision from the beginning.. This is why MS had to kill Netscape and the NOISE group and what the browser wars was really about.
The platform is in the sky - Microsoft idea is the new version of what Netscape and SUN - the NOISE group ( Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun, and Everyone else ) started talking about five years ago.
The server ( web site ) company internets, the ISP, wireless devices, i-appliances, game panels, can all use audio, video, photograph, office applications - word process, presentation, spread sheets, data bases, in a interactive way using a server AGENT or personalized options given the application, the device used, and the pattern of application - on a rental or fee-for-service basics. In other words all the complex stuff is up stream - rich standards based on XML works between platforms and programs but at the server not on the PC - This is the critical and profound change.
The server in the cloud does the transfer and integration - is the platform in the sky that can work with all kinds of devices. It can take a record from one place in one format and uses it in another program in a different format guided by the smart agent. Information can be used almost anywhere from almost anywhere.
The devices can use keyboards, mouse, voice, hand writing, file transfer, clip board, as inputs as well as agent intelligence on the server and user interface.
Not news - cloudy vision part two :
http://www.wired.com/news/lycos/0,1306,37168,00.html
Gates for the first time emphasized the Web browser as the central application of computing. Echoing remarks made by counterparts Marc Andreessen and Scott McNealy four years ago, Gates said the network is even more important than the computer.
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/topics/f2k/default.asp
Microsoft is creating an advanced new generation of software that will meld computing and communications in revolutionary new ways; offer every developer the tools to transform the Web and all other aspects of the computing experience; and enable businesses, knowledge workers and consumers to employ technology on their own terms.
See cloudy vision in http://www.wiredbrain.net/gates.htm
year Bill Gates ( reference to HTML ) Building Internet Applications Professional Developers Conference San Francisco -- March 13, 1996 http://www.wiredbrain.net/bill-g.htm
Maybe the only place to find these remarks
Corning wants to turn glass to cash By Phil Harvey Redherring.com, February 17, 2000
Fiber Optics to the Home
Fiber optics has helped push the telecommunications system into hyperdrive. But only when fiber connections reach all the way into the home will the technology’s promise be fully realized.
America’s Fiber Network
see
http://www.wiredbrain.net/dwdm.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
Since the boards of directors and management of the telephone companies are slow, or unwilling to replace billions of in place switches and copper wire - the communications companies and power utilities provide fiber to service centers then provide broadband directly to business, wideband or other forms of services for the last mile including using the electric wires themselves. This could replace cable service by video on demand, fully integrated into the Internet - i.e. you go to abcnews.com or cnn.com and order the stories you want when you want them. You go to HBO and down load a movie for a limited number of viewing - with pause and rewind - to see when you want - on the home entertainment digital network.
The network provides security, cell phone home office connections, tele-worker facilities, remote program services - the NEXUM the post PC style services. This is all going to happen fast and the plain old telephone is too slow and too conformable to make the hard choices.
I hate monopolies - I hate being tied to one service provider - I want a common wholesale carrier to the curb or to a local service center and a competitive point to point connection.
Utility stocks are a good buy because they are safe and boring with cash flow - and may become the hot technology stocks.
They are a buy and hold - it will take a year to 18 months to pay off - but its a great time to cash out of speculative over priced high tech and go largely into Utilities ( power companies not telephone or cable ) such as those below.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000321/tc/fibernetwork_1.html
Analysts said the new company, America's Fiber Network, was aimed at tapping into the hot market for
high-speed fiber-optic cable providing wholesale Internet and telecommunications services.
America's Fiber Network was formed by utilities American Electric Power Co. Inc. (NYSE:AEP - news), GPU
Inc. (NYSE:GPU - news), Allegheny Energy Inc. (NYSE:AYE - news) and FirstEnergy Corp. (NYSE:FE -
news) and telecommunications firms CFW Communications Co. (NasdaqNM:CFWC - news) and R&B
Communications.
The companies have stitched together a 7,000-mile network that will be able to reach about 35 percent of the
U.S. market for wholesale communications.
The likely customers would be Internet service providers, local and
long-distance phone companies and wireless communications companies.
see
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 5, 1999-- Metromedia Fiber Network (NASDAQ:MFNX - news)
today announced the signing of its second dark fiber agreement with WinStar Communications (NASDAQ:WCII
- news) valued at more than $300 million. Metromedia Fiber Network also plans for a major U.S. intra-city
network expansion to 25 markets, including the six newly announced infrastructure builds throughout the
metropolitan areas of Denver, Miami, Phoenix, Detroit, Cleveland and St. Louis.
These expansions will bring
Metromedia Fiber Network's total planned markets to over 40 in North America and Europe.
Utilities are into communications:
The Company's Nonutility operations principally conduct telecommunications operations which sell long distance, Internet, and dedicated line services and equipment and design, develop, construct, operate, maintain,
and manage a fiber-optic network and digital microwave facilities.
So Where is the Wireless Web?
- by Dee McVicker
- February 11, 2000
Network operations are currently divided into three technology families, code division multiple access (CDMA), time division multiple access (TDMA), and global system for mobile communication (GSM).
If we gave you 800-kilobit packet-data service as a user, we could fit 100 voice calls into that same bandwidth,"
Japan's NTT DoCoMo doesn't have the same concern, one reason why it's not hesitating to jump into 3G. Japanese and European operators running out of bandwidth can license new spectrum for 3G; U.S. operators cannot.
Eventually, the goal is "third generation," or 3G, devices (digital cell phones were the second generation) that will deliver data rates of up to 2 Mbps. Just for comparison, current cellular-network transfer rates plod along at 9.6 Kbps or 14.4 Kbps, at best, which is OK for e-mail and some of the new Internet services being lauded by cell-phone carriers. Phone.com's (PHCM) Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) microbrowser is helping squeeze the Web into these pipes, but that's a stopgap measure.
Wireless data is hot. You can't open a magazine without reading about microbrowsers on cell phones or turn on a television without seeing an advertisement for the Internet-in-your-pocket.
Japan is blasting away, with all jets driving, toward the new wireless Internet. As far back as October 19, 1998, NTT Mobile Communications Network Inc. (NTT DoCoMo, Tokyo), Japan's leading mobile operator, piloted a cellular network that joined together the cell phone and motion video.
Expected to launch commercially in March 2001, the network and others like it will give birth to a new wireless-communications era. For NTT DoCoMo's 3 million "i-mode" cell-phone subscribers (roughly 10 percent of the company's total customer base), for example, it will mean wireless high-speed Internet news, banking, video streaming, travel reservations, Web radio, and a slew of other services.
What does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
Futures, forecasts, and fantasy :
Chappell Brown
Bell Labs is known for revolutions.
In 1947 it was the transistor. Today it is photonics. Called the second silicon revolution, optical fiber systems are in an explosive state of development, reminiscent of the earlier days of the electronics industry.
Over the past two decades, since fiber-optic communications first began to appear, the carrying capacity of fiber has increased at a faster rate than Moore's law. Now the wavelength-division multiplexing revolution has accelerated that capacity even more, while introducing the flexibility
of wavelength-based routing. Forged from an interdisciplinary mix of semiconductor diode lasers, micromachine technology and fundamental advances in optical glass technology, terahertz networking has arrived well ahead of schedule.
It's a major revolution riding on a broad-based industry serving the fundamental human need to communicate.
"A length of fiber long enough to circle the globe three times is produced every day, and if you extrapolate current trends to 2010, every one of the 6 billion people on earth will have a bandwidth capability equivalent to high-definition television," said Alistair Glass, director of photonics research and development at Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories. Arriving at Bell Labs in 1967, Glass' career spans the development and implementation of fiber-optic communications systems.
Major breakthrough
"When I arrived, the major breakthrough was the first continuously operating laser, and it didn't run for very long-only a few minutes," Glass recalled.
"This was the time of the early hero experiments and the demands kept increasing and increasing on these devices.
There was always that pressure, but the interest in the marketplace represented a dramatic change."
There was always a strong demand to increase the performance of any device.
At first the research arm of AT&T, Bell Labs enjoyed a special status after its founding in the 1920s. Because of the monopoly granted AT&T by the government, in the interests of standardizing the telephone system, the lab could both be part of a commercial operation and play the open role of a national laboratory.
"At that time, there was not much connectivity with business- it was very much intellectually driven. We wanted to be leaders in all the fields relevant to communications," Glass said. But in the early 1980s two developments dramatically accelerated photonics research: commercial long-haul fiber-optic systems began to be installed commercially, and AT&T's monopoly was dissolved by the government, with parts of Bell Labs spun off into other companies as part of a complex divestiture of the telecommunications giant. "We were suddenly handed the mandate to develop commercial products out of our research efforts," he said.
The lab responded with a broad attack on optical communications systems. Innovations in the basic fiber, laser diodes to power them, and integrated optoelectronic components to interface with electronic data systems followed. "Since then, particularly with the founding of Lucent Technologies, optics has been accelerating at an incredible rate," Glass said.
For transporting data over long distances, fiber systems proved to be irresistible. Large bundles of copper wire could be replaced by slender silicon fibers in a process of "demassification" usually associated with the electronics industry. While the debate continues over whether optical interconnect is a viable alternative to electrical wiring inside of computers, the issue has been definitively resolved for long-distance communications. But optical interconnect inside the box may eventually succumb to a long-term trend. Recent developments in metropolitan-area networks suggest that fiber optics is riding a scaling law similar to the shrinking VLSI circuit, and the scaling rate appears to be steeper.
The rapid deployment of fiber optics received an even bigger jolt with a repeat of the '80s scenario in the 1990s. Bell Labs was again transferred in 1996 to another entity-Lucent Technologies-and made the centerpiece of a startup with considerable economic resources. Also brewing in photonics labs was a revolutionary technology called dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM), which has allowed the carrying capacity of optical fiber to ramp up at an astonishing rate. "In the mid-90s it became a fever. We went from eight to 16 to 32 wavelengths on a single fiber and our latest products use 400. Now we have just demonstrated 1,000 wavelengths," Glass noted.
Dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) is a technology that puts data from different sources together on an optical fiber, with each signal carried on its own separate light wavelength. Using DWDM, up to 80 (and theoretically more) separate wavelengths or channels of data can be multiplexed into a lightstream transmitted on a single optical fiber. In a system with each channel carrying 2.5 Gbps (billion bits per second), up to 200 billion bits can be delivered a second by the optical fiber. DWDM is also sometimes called wave division multiplexing (WDM).
Since each channel is demultiplexed at the end of the transmission back into the original source, different data formats being transmitted at different data rates can be transmitted together. Specifically, Internet (IP) data, SONET data, and ATM data can all be travelling at the same time within the optical fiber.
DWDM promises to solve the "fiber exhaust" problem and is expected to be the central technology in the all-optical networks of the future. DWDM replaces time-division multiplexing (TDM) as the most effective optical transmission method. Although TDM is the primary approach in today's networks, DWDM systems are expected to be tested and deployed in late 1998 and 1999.
Web ProForum hosts a tutorial on DWDM from Lucent Technologies.
Lucent Technologies offers its WaveStar OLS 400G, a system that provides up to 400 Gbps over a single fiber and, in its maximum eight-fiber configuration, can transmit 3.2 trillion bits per second.
DWDM uses individual segments of the optical spectrum to multiplex signals on a fiber.
The idea is recent, considered at first to be a laboratory curiosity since practical systems were already multiplexing channels with a time-division technique. Such synchronous optical networks (Sonet) had been able to extend the capacity of optical fiber and were a welcome development.
The wavelength-division multiplexing route has turned out to have far more potential: Bell Labs researchers recently demonstrated a DWDM transmission system capable of sending a terabit of data per second down a fiber. "That represents the entire world's Internet on a single glass fiber," Glass said.
The DWDM revolution has been extremely swift. When Lucent Technologies was established, DWDM was still at the laboratory demonstration stage. While the idea is simple, turning it into practical optical communications systems required a multifaceted development. Multiple-wavelength laser-diode systems and new types of fiber able to carry the multiple wavelength signals without crosstalk had to be developed. And some means of collectively amplifying multiwavelength signals had to be invented. While those problems were effectively solved in a short time, it wasn't easy. Indeed, one outstanding problem has never been solved: how to regenerate multiple wavelength signals.
Large areas
One consequence of that missing solution is the fact that DWDM can only be implemented on campus-wide or metropolitan areas. By doping fiber with the rare-earth element erbium, it is possible to build a simple light amplifier that is essentially a laser. When a multiple wavelength signal is passed through an erbium fiber loop and optically pumped, it emerges unchanged except that it is at a higher energy level. One nice aspect of this operation is that the actual content of the wavelength channels is irrelevant to the amplification process. Unfortunately, to recondition optical signals, it becomes necessary to decode their content and relaunch them. Thus signal regeneration, which is essential in long-haul networks, is still unavailable to DWDM.
Balancing this deficiency in very long transmissions is a new wave of all-optical switching elements that are able to add or remove a wavelength channel from a fiber.
These add-drop multiplexers offer a high-speed switching function that could not be duplicated with electronics, and have made metropolitan-area networks into a unique flexible, high-throughput communications medium.
This essentially new form of photonics technology is spawning an industry in optical switching components. "Now people can invent a novel device that relates to communications and it will find its way into products extremely rapidly-less than a year," said Glass. "We are now in a situation of 'invent on demand' where as soon as a problem is perceived, someone immediately comes up with a solution."
This explosive growth poses a formidable challenge to electronics technology. "If you compare the speed of silicon chips versus the capacity of optical fiber communications, fiber optics is going significantly faster than electronics, and where the fiber ends-that becomes a significant bottleneck." Glass is convinced that fiber to the home office and then fiber to the home are just around the corner. "We have a demonstration project going with Bell South where we have wired up a suburban neighborhood with little fiber-optic network units on the side of each house," he said.
Dealing with the high volumes of data that are coming off optical fibers will present a big challenge to electronics. Fortunately, wavelength-division multiplexing eases that task since each wavelength can be processed simultaneously by different circuits. Ultimately, electronics and optics technologies offer complementary abilities: "Optics is ideal for transporting data from point A to point B, but it is weak in the area of logic and switching," Glass pointed out. "That is where we will need electronics."
Copyright c 2000 CMP Media Inc.
By Chappell Brown
The world economic summit is less interesting because the big and powerful
are less interesting.
The rate of technological has multiplied on itself because computers can work faster and communications are better therefore computers and communications becomes faster and faster. My guess is that optic fiber to the door will make on-air or cable broadcasting uneconomic - video on demand will replace it - the program producers will distribute directly to the consumer - like in MP3 - the video store goes on line -
The move producer - such as Blair Witch could be sold directly - same with any show or news or whatever - so there goes networks - maybe even magazine writers with direct sales -
Wireless systems can get up to 400 kps to a million somehow - http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm for a lot of applications that is fine - and OS chip technology will make greater use of less and less with less energy and heat - more light and lighter -
code division multiple access (CDMA) technology.
HP is investing $2 million in New Media Venture Partners (NMVP) and will
provide up to $15 million in debt financing to help the company fund and
incubate e-commerce start-ups. In return, subsidiaries of NMVP will use HP
products and services.
If I were a high technology company - in information systems, computers,
communications or any part of the 25 % of the economy - and almost all the growth sector - now including networks - broadcasting - publishing - entertainment - music - video - electronics - service - I would have a venture capital connection so I could send people out and find out what is going on.
The battle for the airwaves is not just about broadband but the content - software and services. If you put a few hundred thousand in interesting technologies you gain access to information.
There is almost a certainty that something will come from left field and change all the rules again.
Cable is too slow and greedy.
The telephone companies too slow and bureaucratic. Both have shown a preference for short term gains rather than long term survival. Microsoft is showing the same brain arthritis - inflexible - such as IBM was - GM and other big and rich - missed every important technology - but could buy it after it had been proven. That may or may not be possible. .
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
The most common wireless transmission standard, GSM, which stands for
Global Systems for Mobile communications, is particularly prevalent in
Europe and Asia. According to market research firm Dataquest, nearly 157
million GSM-based mobile phones will be shipped worldwide this year,
compared with shipments of about 43 million CDMA cell phones.
But many industry observers say CDMA, strongest in North America, is more
efficient and can handle Internet-based transmissions better.
There is also time division and dense systems - I do believe the key is China - the PLA and post telegraph - along with the EU will set the standards.
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re: ORCL, HP team with Utilities in Consortium to Fiber the Last Mile
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/00/01/24/000124hnutility.xml
"...taking advantage of the deregulated telecom industry, the small,
tightly knit consortium will initially offer digital voice, TV, and Web hosting
over fiber, under the name SpectraDyne Services. It includes Sierra Pacific
Power Company, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle, and TelecommUnity Systems."
http://www.siliconinvestor.com/stocktalk/subject.gsp?subjectid=29127
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=FBCE+FIBR+JDSU+MRVC+OPTC+OPTX+ORTL+POCI+SCMR&d=t
The following image need to be firmly in mind to understand the AOL/ Time
Warner deal - and the frenzy going on in telecommunications and computer
industries.
The time frame is about 10 years - the impact comes first in
Northern Europe - Singapore - parts of the states - parts of Hong Kong and
China - Japan - Taiwan - South East Asia - Australia ( already with system
under construction )
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
There is optic to the door provided by the utility company. It is a common carrier
providing:
TV programs on demand on a big flat screen digital high definition system -
programs are recorded and played as you desire, when you desire on any of the
screens around the wired house you desire.
There is no need for program schedules
- movies and other video content are downloaded on demand from world wide
services. Some charge fees some are free with or without ads. You can watch the
BBC news or CNN or C-span type programs any time.
There is no need for movie
or music channels since you can order anything you want anytime.
The same with music, either rented for a limited number of replays, or purchased and
transferred to CD or DVD -
The same with interactive media - games and
educational services for the wired " smart" house - When you leave the security
system goes on - with complete radar monitoring of any motion with recording of
motion, the heat or AC is turned down, when you click from your cell phone that
you are returning home - the lights and heat or AC is reset, the music turned on and
the doors unsecured.
The cell phone - palm pilot - personal digital assistant works at 400 kbps to 4 Mbs
with GPS, e-mail and other web content, fold up or screen keyboards, long life
batteries, high gain reception of dense multiplex time division wideband GS3 codes.
Europe, with its common GSM standard, will likely usher in "3G" technologies (with their 2 megabit/second
data to pockets) years before it happens in the U.S.' fragmented cellular environment. And fast wireless data
will surely usher in many new Opportunities. -
http://www.pathfinder.com/fortune/technology/2000/01/24/ega.html).
The home terminal - NEXUM - provides wireless ( bluetooth ) connection to the
mobile elements, TV, music, games, information systems with voice commands. You
say " Write a note" and dictate as it appears on the big screen. You correct with the
portable keyboard that is used for interactive TV.
The master computer works
within a network "master server in the sky" to provide services you need or enjoy.
Shopping, banking, tele-communities, video conferences, design and research,
games and social activities, travel and adventure, and tuned to your interests and
desires.
The master server bills for usage in micro pennies for "extras" but charges a
flat fee for "basic services". Several master server companies compete for services
on the common carrier -
The services are not tied to the wire - optic cable - so there are two bills - one for
connection services - the wireless and wired ( optic ) and another from the service
company that passes along charges for rentals, fee for service charges, software
licenses, communications on and off net, as we do today with local and long distance
phone services and premium cable services.
Where is the money made ? Optic fiber hardware - mobile hardware, utility
company right-of-way and network services, the "general utility service company"
maybe AOL, Microsoft, NOISE group ( Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun
Microsystems and everyone else ) Amazon, or others which provides the interface
between the user and service providers - banks, insurance, finance and markets,
shopping, software and music and games and movies and communications, and
entertainment, security, smart home management, and on and on...
The super on-line
service using optic fiber to the door.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
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CONVERGENCE: Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell on the spot all kinds of good and services.
Also some new technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with 10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton, director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands of miles over electric lines
at the speed of light he will produce perhaps the most significant development in communications since Alexander
Graham Bell.
That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both
earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for
light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the
creation and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT.
connected to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our
time - having more importance than the silly political debates, because
economics come from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly
the railroads, automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are
the drivers of our history - culture - social being - and therefore our
economy and political system.
The new world order is not an idea or
ideology but of commerce based on transportation and communications.
Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of our times -
High Speed Internet by Soliton
http://www.wiredbrain.net/dwdm.htm
What is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only
to sell others goods but direct sales.
Their dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the broadband connections really works then personal computers become network devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm a multipurpose
communications and entertainment console.
AOL Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections they will control the content.
The contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and
on-line sales provide the profits.
It's not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions, even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning. I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5 licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS), and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15 years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't work
very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high. Optic fiber to
the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology using power lines may
jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions per day.
The dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world markets, all may not have the
same solution. Satellite systems have a role, but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure to be out of the box answers.
``Wireless Internet devices will not only capture some existing PC applications but
introduce brand new applications that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,''
Engibous told a Tokyo seminar on the company's strategy.
``I think the availability of a wireless device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning to dream about, he added.
With next-generation mobile phone services, users will be able to surf the Web,
check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences and use new mobile
services such as e-commerce, he said.
Next-generation mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the
spring of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98:
Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages
and head start of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The five-year growth rate for cable modems is
forecast to be 93% in North America and 114% in other regions.
The Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked in the
excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open to question.
DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable, data communications
services, further reducing motivation for rollout by the telcos.
The cable companies,
in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access, and remote LAN access as
pure incremental upside revenue opportunities, unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time remote consulting:
Advanced technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to get ahead of
the curve in both the learning and technology game.
I have been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on the NEXUM
project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm and a few
other pages
I could do remote education and training - project projections - systems analysis or
just communicate with a group, motivational manager, thinking out of the box,
win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL can do what Sears did.
The Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
nano computers quantum optical network switching electronics high bandwidth
photonics diode switches molecular transistors molecular logic gates Quantum
Cascade Laser
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-1573410.html
U.S. scientists closer to making new type
of supercomputer
By Reuters
Special to CNET News.com
March 15, 2000, 1:55 p.m. PT
LONDON--U.S. scientists moved a step closer to developing a
super-computer after looking at a branch of physics that researches the
physics of particles invisible to the human eye.
"In the language of quantum information science, we have realized a
four-quantum-bit logic gate. This system is relevant for the future development of
quantum information technology," the scientists said in the journal Nature.
Conventional computers are based on binary
"switches," or bits, which can either be switched on
or off. Computers carry out calculations utilizing these
switches.
Quantum theory holds that entities such as atoms do
not decide whether they exist in an on or off state
until they are measured or interact with something.
When they are not interacting, the atoms exist in both
states at once--a quantum superposition--said
Christopher Monroe, a researcher at the National
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
Computers based on quantum physics would
therefore be able to have switches or "qbits" that exist
in both on and off states simultaneously.
A string of these quantum bits would consequently offer every possible on-off
combination and could carry out every calculation a computer needed
simultaneously, hugely increasing the computer's power and memory.
A short introduction to quantum computation
Max PLANCK and Heisenberg, and Erwin SCHRÖDINGER's wave mechanics,
and Born, are the people of the 20th century who will most influence the
21 st. We will see the application of quantum computer fairly soon. It
could ( so will ) have some level of self awareness we call consciousness
http://www.qubit.org/intros/comp/comp.html
Being in two places at the same time - or going from here to
there without passing through the space between.
The nature of matter at
this level is little energy spots rather than matter as we experience it,
energy that change quantum states - transform from one state to another
instantly.
"
The history of computer technology has involved a sequence of changes
from one type of physical realization to another --- from gears to relays
to valves to transistors to integrated circuits and so on ...
On the atomic scale matter obeys the rules of quantum mechanics,
which are quite different from the classical rules that determine the properties
of conventional logic gates. So if computers are to become smaller in the
future, new, quantum technology must replace or supplement what we have
now.
The point is, however, that quantum technology can offer much more
than cramming more and more bits to silicon and multiplying the clock-speed
of microprocessors. It can support entirely new kind of computation with
qualitatively new algorithms based on quantum principles!
Call
it wireless DOCSIS. A group of 12 telecommunications vendors, led by
Cisco Systems Inc. and Broadcom Corp., are spearheading a de facto standard
for broadband fixed wireless Internet services that could put wireless
on an equal footing with cable delivering high-speed voice, video and data
services.
Together with founding partners Motorola Inc., Texas Instruments
Inc., Samsung Telecommunications America Inc., Toshiba America Information
Systems Inc., Pace Micro Technology plc, Bechtel Telecommunications Corp.,
KPMG Consulting, LCC International Inc. and EDS, the Cisco/Broadcom effort
would enable companies Sprint/MCI Worldcom to join cable's wireline RBOC
competitors in the chase for high-speed data revenue.
For instance, the standards effort could help Sprint/MCI
WorldCom beat cable to market in business parks and in mid- and smaller-sized
systems that haven't been upgraded, observers pointed out. Worldwide wireless
service revenue is expected to nearly double from $57 billion next year
to $110 billion in 2004, according to the Strategis Group.
The initial standards effort focuses on Multipoint Multichannel
Distribution System (MMDS) operations in the 2.5 GHz range, although the
technology will work in 5.7 GHz (unlicensed), 1.8 GHz (PCS) and 28 GHz
(Local Multichannel Distribution Service - LMDS) ranges.
The partnership
aims to standardize the Media Access Control (MAC) and Vector Orthogonal
Frequency division Multiplexing (VOFDM) physical layer for customer premise
equipment (CPE) suppliers and chip suppliers. Chips will be available in
the first half of next year.
The NEXUM project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
it's a great site -
how about quantum computing
?
Borders, periphery, frontiers:
Life and cognizance exists on the edge of quantum and classical
physics.
The very small ( nano ) works by most extraordinary rules - objects
have properties that allow them to move from here to there without going
through the intermediate space. Time is not linear and space bends. Objects
themselves appear, take on properties, and then change their character
and reappears in a different form.
At the atomic and molecular level the connections can be open and creative
rather than mechanical and determined. Uncertainty is a fundamental prerequisite
of creativity and life itself.
A really clever computer working with uncertainly could work at this
level and have some sort of consciousness. This would be an interesting
invention of this century.
quantum dots (or single-electron transistors), quantum wells, quantum
wires, spin transistors or arrays of all these devices.
low power quantum electronics, and high bandwidth photonics are of special
interest, as are the demonstrations of space subsystems based on these
technologies. http://www.aero.org/conferences/micro-nano/
Candidate technologies receiving attention include various quantum functional
devices, quantum computing, DNA computing, and molecular electronics explained
for molecular diode switches, molecular transistors, and molecular logic
gates.
This talk would provide an overview on one such candidate technology
based on carbon and other nanotubes.
the novel Quantum Cascade Laser (QCL), which differs in design from
traditional laser diodes.
This treatment burned out the protein shell and yielded two dimensional
arrays of inorganic iron oxide dots on the Si wafer.
The size and repeat
distance of the dots were 6 and 12 nm, respectively, as measure by FE-SEM
and AFM. As the diameter of the iron oxide dots is only 6 nm, this two
imensional array of inorganic iron oxide dots has a potential to be used
as quantum dots. Feasibility study of the application of this dot array
to the structure of semiconductor memory is now in progress.
Since the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the
age of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
A receiver dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house
and office broadcasts and receives digital signals from a transmitters
in the neighborhood ( up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not
). This single connection would provide really high speed broadband - gigs
per second - cable, telephone, Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software
) up line. You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to
you where ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers,
and all the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the
device knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your
cell phone to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it
( using Bluetooth ) or any financial, business, personal transaction it
would fly through the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s of millions of new connections in China and the rest of
the world without wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The
phone companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and
computer hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business.
It is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years
ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet connection is here
@home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth and the NC (
NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and more like
the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $ 50 monthly
user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off Satellites,
Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people
will use two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite
or be on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats,
and walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT
VOFDM, MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better,
freer more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar
(MIR) time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but
it is being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber
switches are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost of communications content is dropping faster than hardware
- more that twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order
of magnitude ( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s
Law 10 X )
suggestions: FIRST:
The list of companies in tele-communications
http://telecom.tbi.net/network1.htm
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For Example: Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based
web-to-phone service. With Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain ' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est.
Of, relating to, or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of
a strikingly odd or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating
to fate or the Fates. n.
Fate; destiny. One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil.
Often Weird. Greek Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly
adv. weird'ness n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person of the house
gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a weird power in
a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires inexplicable fear
or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence: “At nightfall
on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold” (Robert Louis
Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly unsettling:
“
The queer stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures,
whose eyes seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly
seems so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world:
“He could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
Three basic categories of elementary particles were ultimately distinguished:
leptons, quarks, and bosons. Leptons and quarks are FERMIONS, the basic
constituents of nuclear and atomic structure, or MATTER; BOSONS are the
particles that transmit the fundamental FORCES of nature between fermions.
The smallest class of elementary particles is that of the massless bosons,
which comprises the PHOTON, gluon, W AND Z PARTICLES, and the hypothetical
graviton.
The lepton class contains twelve particles: the electron, muon,
tauon, and their antiparticles, and the neutrino or antineutrino associated
with each.
The QUARKS, the third class, also number twelve: the whimsically
named up, down, charm, strange, top (or truth), and bottom (or beauty)
quarks and their antiparticles. Quarks are always found in pairs or triplets
with other quarks or antiquarks to form particles called hadrons.
In the begining there was the big bang.
Then all was
dark for awhile.
The force of gravaty produced matter and stars and light.
Most of the stuff remained dark with antimatter and antigravity.
The mind
of the universe moves from simple to complex, in a pattern of relationships
too complex to happen purely by chance.
The system desired to become aware
of itself or there would be no point in the exercise.
Elementary particles interact with one another through the four fundamental
forces: GRAVITATION, electromagnetism, WEAK INTERACTION, and STRONG INTERACTION.
Gravitation is experienced by all particles of known matter and anti-gravidy
created the asymmetrical forces that created the universe, electromagnetism
is experienced only by charged particles, such as the electron, proton,
and muon. Hadrons and leptons, including the electron, muon, and the neutrinos,
participate in the weak interaction associated with particle decay.
The
strong interaction is responsible for the structure of the atomic nucleus,
and only hadrons participate in it.
* Another Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast
radio waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas,
such as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Keywords
We have bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being
aware and thinking we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling
about how others treat us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about
our physical ( brown ) and social environment - reacting with passions
of the body-mind ( thoughts, chemistry and electrical energy fields which
define our mood ) ( Red ) - We are aware of something outside ourselves
that causes thoughts on the inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white)
as love and hate ( black ). We dream of things that never were ( Green
) and imagine a golden place.
The history of human development and civilization and organizations
of all kinds from the church, state and business follow patters in these
primary colors.
The physical body come first ( blue ) when people find
they can be better off within a group, they need society for survival or
want to gain power, wealth, position, control, comfort, and use their minds
to ( yellow ) get organized. This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling
vs. reason - the church and state, the divine and secular. But it is only
the beginning.
When groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed that the people in this group would become enthralled
with their elite positions and more and more inclined to make decisions
that protect their power rather than represent the will of the group they
are supposed to serve. http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911) came to the conclusion that the formal organization
of bureaucracies inevitably leads to oligarchy, under which organizations
originally idealistic and democratic eventually come to be dominated by
a small, self-serving group of people who achieved positions of power and
responsibility. This can occur in large organizations because it becomes
physically impossible for everyone to get together every time a decision
has to be made. Consequently, a small group is given the responsibility
of making decisions.
Those in command do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those
that do but are not rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early church was a
synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between the clergy,
the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became Protestants.
When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of kings they formed
parliaments.
They claimed the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't
work.
The church or state or company then claimed a greater good based
on interests. That sort of works.
Then they appealed to the mystery ( green
) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised the golden kingdom
in the sky.
They turned love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron
law of bureaucracy.
Why has the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote
education and teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple
needs of the majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect
from passion, truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin
- a ghost in a machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions,
fostering enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused
our souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a
captive of marketing ?
In short why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
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Who will keep you informed on the events just
around the next bend. In the past it was OK to let others forge the way.
You could wait to see how it turned out then buy your way in after the
bugs had been removed. Pioneers got arrows in their backs. BUT now we are
all on the frontier and can't wait until the dust settles.
Dr. Pflaum ( for a fee ) will research the events and
technologies that will effect your future and give you reports and advice.
People who purchase a PC with the belief that
computer literacy is not necessary are kidding themselves. Still, millions
of people, including my grandparents, are buying PCs with the mistaken
notion that they're no more difficult to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners
don't know how to do the basic tasks, such as installing software and hardware
and defragmenting a disk drive. And God help them if they ever have to
reinstall the operating system. Making the PC easier to maintain would
require the companies that produce the operating systems, software and
hardware to work together in harmony. This will never happen.
It's a problem crying out for a solution. And it's
not hard to imagine one: What if I told you that I could provide you with
a solid-state device a quarter of the size of a PC that had no moving parts
to break? You could run 50 software titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus
SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken, as well as games. You would never
have to upgrade those applications because they would be upgraded for you.
With this device, you could watch more than 175 cable channels and select
from thousands of movie titles that you could watch either on the machine
or on the TV in your living room.
This device would have a hard drive so large that you
could never fill it up. And you never would have to back up files again
because they would be backed up for you every night. If lightning hit this
device while you were using it out by the pool, you might lose some hair
and skin, but you wouldn't lose data—and I could overnight you another
machine.
There would be no problems with an operating system, hardware
drivers or other software. You would simply plug it into your cable box,
and you're ready to go.
Services for the masses
In the near future, services such as these will
replace the PC for millions of people who were never cut out to be PC administrators.
Thin-client operating systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal
Server, combined with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably
be the basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of buying a PC, you would pay the company a
monthly fee, and the company would send you a Winterm device that plugs
into your new high-bandwidth Internet connection, which links to its service.
After powering it on, you would simply hit "connect" and your personalized
GUI desktop would pop up on the screen. You could instantly run hundreds
of applications without installing anything. Any time you saved files,
they'd actually be saved to a server's hard drives, which would be backed
up every night. Combine these services with an e-mail account, and watch
PC sales plummet. After all, who would want to buy a PC with software that
had to be upgraded every year, if you could hire a service to take care
of the mess? Many corporations, tired of the cost and IS staff required
to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump on it.
The technology to build a virtual PC service is here
today. Other technologies, such as movies on demand, are probably a few
years out.
The advent of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure
with such momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by
a group of oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette is chief technology officer for the
9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange and Osceola counties, in Florida. He
can be reached at barq@iag.net.
What could an relevant on-line school be like.
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Color is better than black and white.
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Three dimensions is better than two.
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Round is better than flat.
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Fast is more successful than slow.
Civilization progresses with greater literacy,
greater attention to the laws of man and nature, and greater freedom of
participation.
Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Instruction is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments
and reassembled, creative participation is discouraged at all levels.
The
iron law of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students in rows reviewing text books under the control
of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there
is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two
dimensional and the colors are black and white.
There are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions
to many:
1. ) Knowledge is not only transferred but invented
a lot of learning takes place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing themes are tasks not subjects ,
Knowledge is organized around functions not disciplines
3.) there is creative interaction between teachers
and learners and less distinctions between actors and classes.
The word is convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design of the general communications and computing
device.
Design teams of teachers ( from around the world
) and students from anywhere working on the interface of communications
technology, processing capacity, storage and data transfer compression,
marketing, finance, human machine interface ( ergonomics http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management, information technology, marketing, human
resources and production need to work together. Traditional products such
as automobiles and space rockets and atomic ships has advanced some in
design integration but computers still have a way to go - the
must leap frog current compartment thinking into
new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems analysis different
from what has been used in the last 40 years.
It is more colorful and has more dimensions.
It becomes much more complex where there are many clients,
with many applications, using different languages and protocols. A great
server should ask and how do we establish an interface, what language do
you use, what program do you want, what operating system does it use, and
can I remember all this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com has shown the way within one set of protocols
of how to be client centric. Every store both e and non-e, should be able
to track several open ended data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client,
sales person, so as to show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart
and Builders Square, Office supply and Sears should have a the catalog
and inventory on line at the cash registrar and on-line for the buyers
with items, pictures, prices as well as complete lists of any clients or
sales person’s recorded sales. It world make it a lot easier for contractors
or anyone buying many different items.
A friendly server would connect such data bases to
user applications such as financial records and market research. Can any
client using different tools access open records for different purposes,
in different languages ? Can suppliers or comparative shoppers or programs
that search for best buys ? How would the Nexum, a simple communications
device, use server software to find the best buy ? Who do you compare features
? Models, grades, standards, ? All kinds of applications not invented need
to glide easily into existing systems.
The invention of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color is better than black and white. Three dimensions
is better than two. Round in better than flat. Current instruction is gray
and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing
text books under the control of an instructor is clearly colorless and
flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color or a dark pit
but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors are black and
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as it claims to be fast and large
Most search engines
now find about 30 % of the 350 million pages. So you need to check many
engines.
The Go networks does a good job when it doesn't
crash
with
MSN
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a
Protocol:
He
who controls the interface controls the system.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venture between Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola
will be a connection
between smart mobile phones, which plug into and play the role of wireless
modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s on PC's and Internet-ready
games such as the consoless Sony’s PlayStation 2 -Dell
will announce support for the HPNA 2.0, the latest version of a the
Home Phoneline Networking Alliance standard, aimed at delivering low-cost,
high-speed networking over the phone lines that existing in a household.
HPNA includes 3Com Corp. (Nasdaq:COMS),
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE:AMD),
Intel Corp. (Nasdaq:INTC),
PC makers Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE:HWP),
IBM (NYSE:IBM)
and Compaq Computer Corp. (NYSE:CPQ)
along with Lusent Technologies (NYSE:LU),
Rockewll Semiconductor Systems and Tut Systems, among others.
Dell's deal
gives users access to @Home Network, which has partnerships with 16 cable
companies in 27 states gives. That gives it and Dell enough reach to cover
up to 70 percent of the US population,
NEWSTRACKER
new technology Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The device can carry talk,
pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The device can charge expenses,
such as parking, travel, meals, and pay by use applications.
-
Crank
up the broadband
-
Third-generation
services are coming soon to a mobile phone near you --
-
but
first the platforms and standards have to be resolved.
Current
research -
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The Personal
Communications Utility or Appliance or assistant ( personal digital
assistant ) PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal access device ) or NC ( network
computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects you to the backbone of the
internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
The
comprehensive, omnibus, all-embracing, all-encompassing, across-the-board,
INCLUSIVE, EXTENSIVE widespread, epidemic, GENERAL international, world-wide,
global, cosmic, UNIVERSAL, UBIQUITOUS appliance device, mechanical contraption,
gadget, gismo, CONTRIVANCE doodad, doohickey, thingy, thingamabob, thingamajig,
that we all will carry around. At the counter in Wal-Mat it connects quickly
by infra-red link to the charge ( debit ) machine.
The true paper-less
banking. What do we have ? What did we buy ? How much did it cost on record.
We
talk to it. Call home. Get personal mail. Check on the price of dry wall.
What is the quote on 20 year fixed term money ? Where do I go next ? How
do I get there ? Call ahead and confirm I will be 10 minutes late. What's
on the menu, reserve the table by the window and order ahead. Who has the
best price on or for or going - on anything ? Who wants to buy or sell
? How is the car doing ? Can I fly to Jerusalem in the morning and rent
a car and get a hotel and make appointments ?
When
connected to a terminal I can type or see better - out of the digital airwaves
or on cable or on optic fiber in Africa to China down-links and up links
with nodes and storage NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE and services at my command
charges by the micro-penny. Always on with a flat connection fee. As we
can see, the wireless data future looks to be fast and bright. BUT, we're
far from there today -- today we have a wireless Tower of Babel which requires
a new-age Rosetta Stone to interpret. Happily, the August, 1999 Red Herring
(http://www.herring.com/mag/issue69/news-explained.html)
provides just such an aid to help us understand the choices that abound:
·
In the U.S., if you have an old-style, "analog" cell phone, it should work
wherever you, er roam, since all the traditional cell phone systems had
to use the same FDMA (Frequency Division Multiple Access) standard. Using
a modem, you might get up to 9,600 bits/second of data, but more realistically
you'll top-out at 4,800 bits/second.
These phones don't "do digital," keeping
you from using some new system features and from benefiting from the dramatically
extended battery life that the new digital phones offer.
·
Even if you do have a new digital phone, unless it's a "dual-mode" phone
that can also work on the older analog systems (remember the term "Lowest
Common Denominator?"), it will only work in some areas. Why? Because in
the U.S. there are two different digital coding schemes, called TDMA (Time
Division Multiple Access, where each phone uses one of three time slots
within each channel) and CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access, where each
phone sends its message at low power on many frequencies at the same time,
increasing the number of phones that can be supported up to 20 times.)
Data over current digital phones might be as fast as 14,400 bits/second.
·
If these choices weren't enough, some cellular systems (PCS, or Personal
Communications System) now work on different frequencies (such as 900 MHz
and 1,800 MHz), and some make use of the European GSM (Global System for
Mobile Communications) TDMA standard (up to ten time slots per channel).
Whew!
If
you live and travel mostly in large U.S. cities, this Tower of Technological
Babel doesn't usually rear its ugly head, but once you head out into suburbia,
the various digital systems run out of coverage far faster than the old
analog infrastructure.
Pocket
Ecommerce.
By
the way, for an idea of how wireless Ecommerce is beginning, consider France.
While some might think of French cuisine and soft drinks as being at two
ends of the culinary spectrum, the French are demonstrating how, if your
palette still wants a Coke, you can pay for it with your cell phone --
just call the number on the machine and out pops your Coke, charged to
your phone bill! (http://www.herring.com/mag/issue69/news-air.html)
And as of last week, DLJdirect allows your fingers to do the trading in
your stock portfolio, right from your pocket cell phone (http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-123066.html?tag=st.cn.1fd2
and http://www.dljdirect.com/dljd/wc_main.htm).
Then
there's the future, in the guise of "3G," or Third-Generation Cellular,
whose format is still being fought on the battlefields of the International
Telecommunications Union (ITU). Although the method is not yet cast in
concrete, the benefits include potentially very high bandwidth to our pockets
(up to 2 megabits/second!), so this is something worth waiting for. According
to IDC, there will be a half-billion cell phones by 2002, many of them
"doing data" and the Web through protocols such as WAP (Wireless Access
Protocol).
There's
another potential benefit to 3G -- we have another chance to make all the
cellular systems around the world compatible! Well -- we can HOPE, can't
we?
Bottom
line?
The line between telephones, the Web, and our pockets and purses
is going to be a very blurry and wavy line indeed, as some of today's,
and certainly tomorrow's pocket phones become Internet citizens in their
own right. And if we talk nice to them, they may allow us to share in the
"always expected to be accessible" Internet of tomorrow...
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
Since
the late 1880s, when wireless communications were first demonstrated, all
practical uses of radio have relied on the transmission of continuous sine
waves.
The modulation of those sine waves allows the transmission and reception
of information in either amplitude (AM radio) or frequency (FM radio).
From 1890 to the present, industry has searched relentlessly for ways to
send more information more reliably. Radio researchers have evolved techniques
such as CDMA, TDMA, etc.
Introduction to CDMA
http://www.time-domain.com/technology.htmlNow,
the entire wireless landscape has changed. Larry Fullerton discovered that
single RF monocycles could be transmitted through an antenna, and by precisely
positioning these monocycles in time and then using a matched receiver
to recover the transmissions, a whole new wireless medium was created,
'Digital Pulse Wireless' - a medium that does not rely on sine waves, does
not require an assigned frequency, does not need a power amplifier, and
is so random and low powered that it is indistinguishable from noise.
The
medium does require precise pulse placement in time (pulses are positioned
with an accuracy of trillionths of a second), and it also requires a coherent
correlating receiver - a Fullerton correlator. Larry Fullerton developed
and patented the technology over the last decade.
http://lasers.llnl.gov/lasers/idp/mir/files/MIR_info.html
The technology based on pulse-echo radar, discovered around the turn of
the century. Such radar leverages the speed of light as an integral component
of its operation, measuring the echo that results when a pulse strikes
an object to determine that object's distance from the pulse source.
Conventional
radar systems transmit several thousand such pulses per second. MIR, by
contrast, sends out over 1 million.
"In
the past, people used radio waves, but nobody cared how fast they were
going," McEwan said. "Now the consumer can use devices that actually clock
the speed of light in the form of microwave propagation, allowing them
to do things that they could never do before."
http://www.eet.com/news/97/937news/sensorapps.html
As
I understand IT , a new type of technology using Time Synchronization Systems
Through DCF77 or GPS signal and using a 10,000 MHTZ chip can transmit MEGA-BITS
the last mile. In synergy with solid state atomic level MEMORY TECHNOLOGY
data moves from FROM MEGA-BIT TO GIGA-BIT per second. High Speed processors
adapted from TERCOM - terrain contour matching 10,000 MHz chip used
in the cruise missile terrain following "smart bombs" or using guided radio
waves or laser beam targeting based on rapid image recognition.
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
According
to CMR ( http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
The
news tracker connection then runs everything
.
The Star Office 5.1
is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be updated, reconfigured
to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't need to be completely
installed on every terminal but can run off the system network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the
communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The system knows where
you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are ( kind of device you
are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference, word processor,
accounts, pay a bill, trade a stock, check a score, report a crime, read
a meter, pay for a ticket, open a door, check an inventory, order a supply,
call a client, check a law library reference, collect a bill, make a date,
listen to music, play a game or see a film while waiting ( plugs into monitor
) and can charge mico-cents for pay-by-use applications with good enough
security.. etc.
it
can't be done by a voluntary committee as in the good old non commercial
days when the DOD and NSF controlled the net. It can’t be done by government
( too slow ) IT has to be global - the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes
well ahead.
The WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global
trade or international postal telecommunications agreement could set up
a fast working body the approve PROTOCALS. such as CDMA
or
GSM
from the European Telecommunication Standards Institute (ETSI) With
North America making a delayed entry into the GSM field with a derivative
of GSM called PCS1900, GSM systems exist on every continent, and the acronym
GSM now aptly stands for Global System for Mobile communications.
Now
MS does the global job for desktops but is clearly not neutral or trustworthy,
since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars in systems
sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Communications
devices will be able to adapt instantly to the different frequencies and
transmission standards used around the globe. One San Jose company wants
to go even further, creating chameleon-like cell phones that can change
into portable Internet radios, game machines or pocket-size video players.
The
new approach, known as ``software-defined
radio,'' could help consumers keep up with evolving wireless networks
without having to swap phones.
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AMPS
Advanced Mobile Phone Service
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ATM
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
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CDMA
Code Division Multiple Access
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CDPD
Cellular Digital Packet Radio, transparently piggybacks on cellular analog
conversations to enable simultaneous voice/data transmission.
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CSC
Circuit Switched Cellular, good for large data transfers, offers wide coverage.
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D-AMPS
Digital AMPS
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DECT
Digital European Cordless Telephone
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DSP
Digital Signal Processor
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ERMES
European Radio Messaging System
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ETSI
European Telecommunications Standards Institute
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FCC
Federal Communications Commission
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GSM
Global System for Mobile Communications (European Std.)
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HCS
Hierarchical Cell Structures
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ITU-T
The telecommunication standardization sector of the International Telecommunication
Union
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MBS
Mobile Broadband System
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MIPS
Millions of Instructions Per Second
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MSS
Mobile Satellite System
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NMT
Nordic Mobile Telephone
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PCN
Personal Communications Networks (
The European 'PCS')
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PCS
Personal Communications Service
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PDC
Personal Digital Communications
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PIN
Personal Identification Number
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PMR
Private Land Mobile Radio
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RACE
Research and Development in Advanced Communications Technologies in Europe
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RLL
Radio in the Local Loop
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SIM
Subscriber Identification Module
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TACS
Total Access Communication System
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TAP
Telocator Alphanumeric Protocol, used by alpha pagers, a 7 bit protocol,
ASCII print format
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TDMA
Time Division Multiple Access
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TDP
Telocator Data Protocol, 8 bit binary format for pagers
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TMN
Telecommunications Management Network
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UMTS
Universal Mobile Telecommunication System
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UPT
Universal Personal Telecommunication
The
competing air interface wireless PCS standards:
The
Big Four:
IS-54-based
TDMA A derivative of 800-megahertz digital TDMA cellular network technology.
IS-95-based
CDMA An 800-MHz digital CDMA technology used in cellular networks.
DCS-based
TDMA Based on the European PCS standard, GSM.
Composite
CDMA/TDMA Hybrid technology that won a Pioneer's Preference PCS license
for the New York City market.
Three
other competing PCS air interfaces to watch:
PACS
TDMA Based on technology from Bell Communications Research . and Japan's
HandyPhone project.
DCT-based
TDMA Based on the European DECT standard.
Wideband
CDMA A wideband version of CDMA.
Finance
Physics:
Of
course, market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology
called perceptions. BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles
and the laws of social physics will "correct" the difference between false
perceptions and a harder reality.
In
the current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and
Asia’s problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market
"correction" of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
Like
the human brain, the internet's
packets system can reconfigure itself to work even after portions were
destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits of the time, it was impossible
to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded that all the traffic would
have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic would have to be broken
into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like
a DNA molecule, and able to replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission
error occurred. With many additions and permutations, his original design
is today termed the Internet, click here for the emerging history of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their perceptions are defined within what is called a
tribal culture - part real and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge
is fairly modern as a cultural style and still not seriously or firmly
established as a norm.
The irrational base of human understanding is clearly
demonstrated by politics and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The new world order - lacks a vision or social
psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
-
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
-
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
-
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
-
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
-
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
-
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
-
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
-
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
-
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
-
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
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