Why is the evolution of Global Communications crucial to the

world?

Paul JueckstockMay 4, 2007

Senior Seminar

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Importance of Global Communications today

• Red Telephone on President’s Desk• Political Relations• Global Business connections• Home entertainment• Easy and cheap interactive communications for

businesses and home users• Choosing Video-conferences instead of site-visits

saves money and is instant

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Where else is it used?• Emergency services• Tracking devices (FM/GSM for data uplink)• Traffic information for GPS devices• News, weather, stocks, movie information, traffic

updates, lottery numbers, Horoscopes, RSS feeds etc. for Smart Watches® and devices using MSN Direct® and SPOT technologies

• Wireless broadband services such as GPRS, EDGE and UMTS melt phone, internet, e-mail and TV. Worldwide.

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The world is changing• China will soon become the number one

English-speaking country in the world• If you took every single job in the U.S. today

and shipped it to China, it would still have a labor surplusDuring my presentation:

• 60 children will be born in the U.S.• 244 children will be born in China• 351 children will be born in India

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• We are currently preparing learners for jobs that don’t yet exist

• The former US Secretary of Education, Richard Riley, states that the top 10 jobs that will be in demand in 2010 didn’t even exist in 2004

• We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t exist yet using technologies that haven’t yet been invented in order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet

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• U.S. is 20th in the world in broadband internet penetrations

• Nintendo invested more than $ 140 million in research and development in 2002 alone

• One out of every 8 couples married in the U.S. last year met online

• There are over 175 million registered users of MySpace (as of May 2007)

• If MySpace would be a country, it would be the 6th-largest in the world (between Brazil and Pakistan)

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We are living in exponential times

• There are over 2.7 billion searches performed using Google each month

• The number of text messages sent and received every day exceeds the population of the planet

• It is estimated that 1.5 exabytes (1.5 x 10 to the 18th power) of unique new information will be generated worldwide this year

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• The amount of new technical information is doubling every 2 years

• For students starting a four-year technical or college degree this means that ½ of what they learn in their 1st year of study will be outdated by their 3rd year of study

• It is predicted to double every 72 hours by 2010

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• Third-generation fiber optics has recently been tested by both NEC and Alcatel that pushes 10 trillion bits per second down one strand of fiber at the cost of $0

• That’s 1,900 CDs, or 150 million simultaneous phone calls every second

• It’s currently tripling about every 7 months and is expected to do so for at least the next 20 years

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• ePaper will be cheaper than real paper

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• 47 million laptops were shipped worldwide last year

• The $100 laptop project is expecting to ship between 50 to 100 million laptops per year to children in underdeveloped countries

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• Predictions are that by 2013 a supercomputer will be build that exceeds the computation capability of the human brain

• By 2023, when 1st graders will be just 23 years old and beginning their (first) careers, it only will take a $1,000 computer to exceed the computation capabilities of the human brain

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• Predictions are that by 2049, a $1,000 computer will exceed the computational capabilities of the human race

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What devices can we expect to see in the near future?

• Interactive, wall-sized Touch Screen TV’s• Touch screen Mobile Phones, with Wireless Web-

browser, e-mail, Instant Messaging, Productivity Applications, Camera, Music, Video, Games etc (see Symbian® Smart-phones and Apple® iPhone)

• Increasing number of VoIP telephony and VoIP devices, including video conferencing

• Network integrated appliances, home control

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What devices can we expect to see in the near future?

• Further evolution and deployment of GSM devices– GSM stands for Global System for Mobile

communications

• MicroMedia Paper

• Haptics Systems (ex. “Whole-Hand Force Feedback Systems”)

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What devices can we expect to see in the near future?

• VoWi-Fi & dual-mode GSM/VoWi-Fi devices

• 802.16 & UMTS phones

• VVT Finnish Walking Bio-Identification Phone

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Why is the evolution of Global Communications crucial to the world?

• The importance of classical, industrial jobs declines

• “Knowledge-workers” are in higher demand

• The “added value”, the source of all wealth occurs more and more on computers, less with industrial jobs

• More industrial jobs are getting replaced with robots, programmed by “knowledge-workers”

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Global Communications change the way the world works

• If knowledge engineering is the source of the “value creation”, then communication is the “vehicle” to make skilled, advanced work more efficient

• Almost no one can do things alone, one has to communicate

• Knowledge is immaterial and can easily be relayed using the internet, the “knowledge-workers” don’t have to sit together

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What else is going to change?• Communication increasingly happens on a

global scale, knowledge is constantly accessible virtually anywhere

• Communication means permanent availability and more constant cross-linking.

• Privacy decreases

• Everything happens quicker

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• Time used previously for research knowledge and information was a lot of non-productive travel time, offline databank research sometimes had to be done in a different country, far away

• Now, with new technologies businesses have an enormous efficiency gain

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Apple® iPhone LunarDesign ® MicroMedia Paper

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Fossil Abacus Smart Watch 2006

Using MSN Direct’s SPOT service

Melitta Smart Mill & Brew Coffee Maker

Using MSN Direct’s SPOT service

Garmin nüvi 680

Using MSN Direct’s SPOT service

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Level 3 Communications Fiber Optic Network Map

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A small part of the Internet

net, ca, us com, org mil, gov, edujp, cn, tw, au de, uk, it, pl, fr br, kr, nl unknown

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