The document discusses how technology progress will impact society in the future. It will lead to ubiquitous sensing of the environment and individuals, ultra-broadband connectivity, smart infrastructure, transformed healthcare using wireless connected devices, and more efficient energy management. While Australia graduates more engineers than the US and is close to Israel, it lags far behind China. The document also addresses Australia's position in the global technology race and how it can help shape regional standards adoption.

1. The future is a foreign country* Hugh Bradlow, Chief Technology Officer, Telstra Corporation * With apologies to L.P. Hartley 1

2. 2 Outline What does technology progress look like? What drives technology progress? How can technology progress change society? How is Australia placed in the global technology race?

3. What does technology progress look like? 3

4. 4 Mobile

5. 5 Realistic: Electronic Wallpaper

6. 6 Realistic: 3D and Holography

7. 7 Picture from the Australian Financial Review, 31 Dec 1998 Realistic: Wearable displays

8. 8 Entertainment on demand

9. 9 Information on demand

10. 10 Processing on demand Backplane Bus CPU Memory I/O Cloud Computing

11. 11 Sensing the environment Homes Ecosystems Individuals Air quality Google Power Meter Wireless band-aid Security systems Fall detector Water quality

12. 12 Sensing you: (Context-based computing)

13. What drives technology progress? 13

14. 14 Computing power Moore’s Law: The number of transistors that can be placed on an integrated circuit has doubled approximately every two years

15. 15 Telecommunications requirements Triple PlaySDTV Triple PlayHDTV Ultra HD & 3D TV Gaming Web Surfing AccessSpeeds 1.5 Mbps 12 Mbps 26 Mbps 100 Mbps 256kbps 64kbps

16. 16 Telecommunications Power ? NG PON2 40G NG PON1 10G ? GPON 2.5G LTE –Advanced BPON 620M LTE 300 M DOCSIS 3 150M LTE 150 M HSPA 84 M HSPA 42 M ADSL2+ 24M HSPA 21 M BandwidthHSPA: 5,10 MHz LTE: 20 MHz LTE- A: 100 MHz HSDPA 14M ADSL1 8M Assumptions: Top of line commercial broadband services deployed, low network load and burst speeds. Typical customer speeds will be less Sources: Telstra services and future estimates. Future wireless access estimates based on 3GPP standards

17. Technology’s impact on society 17

18. Slide 18 Ultra-broadband = A fundamental shift in the economy

19. 19 Business productivity: cloud services Infrastructure Software Scale quickly & efficiently Traditional Avoid Waste Capacity Variabilise cost Cloud Computing Access data and people from anywhere Time Less reliance on scarce skills Leverage high computing power Best of breed applications © 2010 Telstra Corporation Limited. All rights reserved

20. Smart infrastructure Sensors, Computers and Communications Devices Magnetic Nails 20

21. 21 Reduced pressure on infrastructure

22. 22 Transformed Healthcare City hospital Clinic, Pharmacy, Remote Hospital

23. 23 Empowering Individuals with Connected Devices Wireless transfer to hosted portal Parameter transfer via Bluetooth Next G Mobile Phone Medical portal Glucose meter

24. 24 Managing energy consumption

25. 25 Managing energy consumption

26. 26 Managing energy consumption

27. Australia’s position in the global information economy 27

28. 28 Engineers are the lifeblood of a technological society Roughly the same as USA, but about 57% of Israel *Figures for 2007-2009

29. 29 Engineers are the lifeblood of a technological society China graduates every year almost 3 times the total number of engineers in Australia *Figures for 2007-2009 Australia more than double USA, and almost the same as Israel – however, this includes 41% overseas students

30. 30 Entrepreneurism *Economist Intelligence Unit white paper, “Innovation: Transforming the way business creates”, May 2007

31. 31 Technology adoption

32. 32 1984 (George Orwell’s book, not the year!) LTE TD-SCDMA 3GSM CDMA

33. 33 862 MHz 470 MHz 890 MHz 790 MHz Digital Dividend Europe 470 MHz 890 MHz 806 MHz 698 MHz Reserved USChina, KoreaIndia, Japan, NZ, others Reassigned for Mobile (1980s) Digital Dividend Country specific extra assignment 694 MHz 520 MHz 820 MHz Region 3 (Asia and A/P) Australian Proposal Australia as Market Shaper in Unified LTE world Regional Digital Dividends

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