[DMCA-Activists] Re: [C-Fit_Community] Envisioning an Open Spectrum World

[Douglas Galbi]

>One aspect I look to exploring is the idea that UWB +
>Cognitive Radios + RFID + Moore's Law should develop into
>ultra-lowcost devices that can be embedded in just about
>every manufactured (and probably biological as well) thing.
>What will this mean? 
...
>If anyone has any thoughts or pointers to stuff written
>about this (doesn't have to be this far out of course :-),
>please let me know. 

You might consider how the proliferation of small radios
relates to freedom from certain types of searches and 
seizures.  See Section IV.C, "Freedom in the House" in
"Revolutionary Ideas for Radio Regulation," available at
 http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=316380
and at
http://www.galbithink.org

You might also consider how "open spectrum" relates to
"open discussion".  There are many aspects of human beings,
other than their technological capabilities, that affects their
willingness to communicate with others, e.g. social status,
class, race, age, sex, economic interest...  How important are
new radio technologies relative to other factors that affect
the scope and quality of communication?


>>> Seth Johnson 02/03/03 04:48AM >>>

(Forwarded from Interesting People list)

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Subject: [IP] Envisioning what a world with an Open
SpectrumCommons look like...
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 04:25:59 -0500
From: Dave Farber <address@hidden>
To: ip <address@hidden>


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From: "Robert J. Berger" <address@hidden>
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 18:18:30 +0900
To: Dewayne Hendricks <address@hidden>, Dave Farber
<address@hidden>
Subject: Envisioning what a world with an Open Spectrum
Commons look like...

One of the things I'm writing about here at Glocom is what a
world with an Open Spectrum Commons might look like in terms
of how it would effect people, companies and markets.

It seems that what has been written so far has been so
focused on just communicating what Open Spectrum is, that
there is not all that much about how an Open Spectrum
Commons might transform society.

There has been some written about the importance of Open
Spectrum is for freedom of speech. For instance Dave
Weinberger and others who have been thinking a lot about
Open Spectrum have put down some broad strokes on how its
important to democracy in the Greater Democracy website
pages on Open Spectrum "Why Open Spectrum Matters"
(http://www.greaterdemocracy.org/framing_openspectrum.html).


There was a good  science fiction story recently on the net
by Cory Doctorow about a near term future vision of Open
Spectrum: "Liberation Spectrum"
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/01/16/liberation_spectrum/index.html 

One aspect I look to exploring is the idea that UWB +
Cognitive Radios + RFID + Moore's Law should develop into
ultra-lowcost devices that can be embedded in just about
every manufactured (and probably biological as well) thing.
What will this mean? There are both dark and light
possibilities here. (Infinite trackability is one). What
kind of emergent property will come about?

Combine that with the following thoughts from a recent essay
by William Gibsion. He wasn't thinking about wireless perse,
but I always think of the Open Spectrum wireless as just the
capilaries of the Internet. His essay was about how
electronic media in general and the Internet in particular
are examples of how we are becoming a "borg". We don't need
implants, just connectivity:

"There9s my cybernetic organism: the internet. If you accept
that 3physical2 isn9t only the things we can touch, it9s the
largest man-made object on the planet, or will be, soon:
it9s outstripping the telephone system, or ingesting it, as
I speak. And we who participate in it are physically a part
of it. The Borg we are becoming..




Interface evolves toward transparency. The one you have to
devote the least conscious effort to, survives, prospers.
This is true for interface hardware as well, so that the
cranial jacks and brain inserts and bolts in the neck, all
the transitional sci-fi hardware of the sci-fi cyborg,
already looks slightly quaint. The real cyborg, the global
organism, is so splendidly invasive that these things
already seem medieval. They fascinate, much as torture
instruments do, or reveal erotic possibilities to the
adventurous, or beckon as stages or canvasses for the
artist, but I doubt that very many of us will ever go there.
The real cyborg will be deeper and more subtle and exist
increasingly at the particle level, in a humanity where
unaugmented reality will eventually be a hypothetical
construct, something we can only try, with great difficulty,
to imagine -- as we might try, today, to imagine a world
without electronic media."

- William Gibson Essay: IN THE VISEGRIPS OF DR. SATAN (WITH
VANNEVAR BUSH)
http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/archive/2003_01_28_archive.asp 

I'm also attempting to identify related disruptive
technology opportunities. IE what would be the tech to
invest in if you were a technology company and wanted to
attempt to ride the wave of Open Spectrum. The areas I'm
thinking of right now are:

* Enhancing existing standards and developing new standards
that facilitate UWB, Cognitive/Software defined radios and
meshing.

* Chipsets and embeddable subsystems for above

* Integrating existing types of devices into ubiquitous,
broadband, wireless networked devices (i.e. Appliances, home
electronics, cars, lighting, etc.)

* Distributed OS and management

* Distributed entertainment


If anyone has any thoughts or pointers to stuff written
about this (doesn't have to be this far out of course :-),
please let me know. Besides my own needs, it might also be
useful in stimulating both discussion and building more
steam for conveying why Open Spectrum is important.

-- 
Robert J. Berger - Internet Bandwidth Development, LLC.
In Tokyo as Glocom visiting research fellow through April
2003
Cell: +81 80-3121-6128 Work: +81 3-5411-6613
http://www.glocom.ac.jp 
eFax: +1-408-490-2868 address@hidden address@hidden 



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