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Wireless Communications2030

How wireless communications will change utterly the way we access information by 2030

Robert EastmanMark O'Meara

Ming Chung PoonPadraig Redmond

David RuanePatryk SzafranskiDennis Theurer

Augustine VettikkaCyril O'Floinn

Robert EastmanMark O'Meara

Ming Chung PoonPadraig Redmond

David RuanePatryk SzafranskiDennis Theurer

Augustine VettikkaCyril O'Floinn

Introduction

�How wireless communication looks today - Cyril�How wireless communication looks today - Cyril

�What shape it might be in 2030 – David Ruane�What shape it might be in 2030 – David Ruane

�What new interfaces might exist – Dennis Theurer�What new interfaces might exist – Dennis Theurer

�Their uses and how they might affect us - Cyril�Their uses and how they might affect us - Cyril

What's the most visible from of wireless communications today ?

Cyril O'Floinn

Why the mobile phonephone of course !

But it's not really just a phone anymore,is it ?

Phones are becoming for some age groups the primary interface tool for accessing data when we are mobile

Phones are becoming for some age groups the primary interface tool for accessing data when we are mobile

So it looks like mobile phones or something similar that most of us will be accesing the internet of the future and not the pc or laptop when we are mobile

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Future Technologies

David Ruane

Future Technologies

� 4g

� IPv6

� Mesh Networking

4G

� The 4th generation of mobile phones.

� Anytime, Anywhere

� Fully IP based

� 100Mbit/s 1 Gbit/s speeds

IPv6

� Very simply – a lot more IP addresses available.

� 2^128 (about 3.4×10^38) addresses

� An address for every electronic device

Mesh Networking

� Data is routed through 'nodes'.

� This reduces the required infrastructure.

� The OPLC XO-1 utilises mesh networks.

� Mesh Networks can also self repair.

Mesh Networking

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What does this all mean?

� Fast, reliable wireless networks.

� Increased mobility

� Internet always available

Communicationbetween Human and Machine

Dennis Theurer

Interfaces

Today 2030

University of Washington

Emotiv Systemshttp://www.microvision.com/wearable_displays/wearable_application_gallery.html

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Uses & Effects

Cyril O'Floinn

Social Networking Sites

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Game Worlds

Technological Walled Gardens

Tighly controlled monopolies on users data where you're “state” is closed or unaccessible to outsiders

Still need to stop what you're doing to update you're social nework profile or game state

Manually Updated

But what if we moved our Social Network Profile to our Phones

But how to get others to see our profiles ?

Thanks to the devices described by dennis we will be able to have superimposed graphics, audio and other sense enhancements over our real-world environment in real-time

With Augmented Reality (AR) !

But we won't just stop there with just our profiles ?

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Pretty much everything in an urban setting will have a profile viewable by in our AR world!

Buildings, vehicles, public places,resturants, bars in fact pretty much anything you name will have some viewable profile in this AR world of ours of whether its passive like a building or active like our own

Digital Memories� We will never be lost –

our phone will always know where we are

� We will never forget -phones will log where we go, who we meet

� Life blogging where everthing we see and hear will be

� Never miss a friend or colleague, event or meeting, phones will tells us if something we like is on nearby

� Phone WILL become our digital memories

Privacy

� Its going to be VERY difficult to protect

� Society will need to have new etiquette rules

� Be easy for us to “sleepwalk” into a Big Brother if we allow any goverments control of the mesh network

� Need a world wide open commons treaty law governing mesh network

Homo Mobilis� Permanently connected generation

� Processing lots of information

� Will become good at browsing or generating information quicky

� No time to think or care about in depth quality -speed alone important

� Good information generalist but poor specialists

� But language spoken or written is how we develop our ability to think

� Speed will diminsh our capacity to both concentrate and clarify our thoughts

� Reading book like amounts of data for many will prove almost impossible

Summary� Phones or their succesors

are becoming our primary interface to internet and all things digital

� Phones will become nodes in a massive world wide mesh network

� New man machine AR interfaces

� Phones will become our digital memories & butlers

� We may become too depenent on our phones

� Death of the Intellectual ?