A New Deal For Europe

Slide 1: A new Deal for Europe Broadband for everybody for a better living (and education)

Slide 2: As Pdt F. Roosevelt does  With the Tennesse Valley Authority in 1933..  To bring electricity in the country  10 billions US $/year until the 2d world war  To stop the 1929’ big economic crisis…

Slide 3: The situation today is quite different, but…  We have oil and fossil energies crisis in perspective…  The problems of « durable environment » (warming climate..)  And the Revolution 3.0…  So, Human Beings would have some probems in the next futur…

Slide 4: The 3d Revolution of Human Beings  After the Revolution 1.0 (Agriculture, 10.000 years ago, in Near Orient)  After the Revolution 2.0 (Industry, 300 years ago in Europe – UK is in Europe, isn’t it ?)  Human Beings are starting the Revolution 3.0

Slide 5: No name at the moment for this new Revolution based on :  … Nanotechnologies…  …Humanoïd Robot  …Renewable Energies  …Synthetic Biology  ….

Slide 6: Between Revolution 1.0 and 2.0 nothing happens  Perhaps some « frictional » problems between english, french and german people and other tribes on the Earth…  Nothing happens, except the « first Bill Gates » : Johannes Gutenberg (1456)…  Printing change the World, the spread of knowledge, the quantity of knowledge, the education of Human Beings…

Slide 7: And between the 2.0 and 3.0 Revolution  Internet would be the « modern printing »  And broadband Internet, based on fiber optic end to end, would be marvellous … for the different activities of Human Societies (commerce, entertainment, communication, health… )  AND EDUCATION – Why ?

Slide 8: Human Beings brain…  100 billions of neurons… and each one has 1.000 connexions with others…  That’s a marvellous thing (thanks to God…), but…

Slide 9: But it’s not the « panacea ». Why ?  Because HB ’ brain doesn’t quickly understand complex problem, abstraction, …  We would need more neurons…

Slide 10: That the problem for education  So what we have to do ?  Very simple…

Slide 11: Build interactive 3D applications  Why ? Because if you interact yourself with/inside a process (real or virtual), you retain much more than if you’re listened some one with a piece of chalk on a blackboard…  THAT’S THE KEY for e-education …

Slide 12: For that we need 2 things…  Interactive 3D applications  And broadband for delivering that to universities, schools, homes (interactive 3D needs broadband – 100 megabits/s and more – (same thing for commerce, communication, health, ….)  Suggestion :

Slide 13: Building the 3d Millenium University  I suggest Europe would be « the melting pot » for that (we suppose english, french, german… resolve their traditional historical problems)…

Slide 14: A new Deal for Europe  As President Roosevelt does in 1933 in United States…  We do the same thing in Europe to build this University .. Bring fiber to every European (as in Japan..)  Create public/private partnerships to carry through interactive 3D applications  If not... Our european Futur is compromised… in the Revolution 3.0

Slide 15: Many projects outside…  MIT with opencourseware (87.000 on line courses)  CORE : China opencourseware with 44 chinese universities  Global Education Learning Community, a fondation of Scott McNelly…  So, what we do ?

Slide 16: Many thanks for your attention… and good luck in the Futur 3.0…  My email : jmbillaut@yahoo.fr  My blog/videoblog : http:// billaut.typepad.com  Skype : billaut