Massachusetts Institute of Technology lip@mit May, 2007

Massachusetts Instituteof Technologylip@mit.eduMay, 2007

Communications Futures Program

Structures and opportunities for

Communications

HDL

A platform for expression between phone and Desktop

Portable configurationCommunity infrastructureIndoor/Outdoor display24 hour powerOpen system

OLPC/HDL

800x600 color; 1200x900 B&W258 MB memory; 1024 MB flash433MHz Geode (or more)

5 million of 47 millionWorkspace, ebook, communicatorScratch

HDL

(green) those countries we plan to pilot

(red) those countries we plan to include in the post-launch phase

(orange) those countries who have expressed interest at the Ministry-of-Education level or higher

(yellow) those countries who are currently seeking government support

5/07

Living the Future

The best way to invent the future is to live it.

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SENSEable City Lab, MIT

Vision

The best way to invent the future is to live it.

MIT, through close collaboration with a small number of

Living the Future sponsors will transform life on MIT’s

campus and in the Cambridge Community into a blueprint

for the future of connected life with the person in the center.

There are a great many breakthroughs for which we have no model -- they require impossible joint-ventures, regulatory changes, or user-based innovations that we cannot predict. MIT and its community can invent and explore them. It can also become a test platform for sponsor ideas and ventures.

Proto-LTF organization

PCS CampusCarrier

Net integration: Backbone sysems, intelligent net; ; MIT-wide systems

Consumer: Cross-network platform; portable devices, sensor integration

Media: MIT access control; media interface

Carrier interface; portable

platforms; development

env

Carrier integration; MIT-MVNO;

local net

WiMax testbed; portable

processing

Verticals: Health; Live media

Starting points

AmuletIdentity and transactionsNetwork intermediary

MIT mobile virtual internetGlobal network access via MIT-MVNOtrans-network mobility

Interior GISReal-world mashupsInstant data and computing

Preparation for health, entertainment and social experiments