In "The Future of the Internet IV," Director Lee Rainie reports on the results of a new survey of experts predicting what the Internet will look like in 2020 at the American Association for the Advancement of Science's 2010 Annual Meeting in San Diego.
Future of the Internet Predictions March 2014 PIP ReportVasily Ryzhonkov
This report is the latest research report in a sustained effort throughout 2014 by the Pew Research Center to mark the 25th anniversary of the creation of the World Wide Web by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. He wrote a paper on March 12, 1989 proposing an “information management” system that became the conceptual and architectural structure for the Web. He eventually released the code for his system — for free — to the world on Christmas Day in 1990. It became a milestone in easing the way for ordinary people to access documents and interact over the Internet — a system that linked computers and that had been around for years.
The Web became a major layer of the Internet. Indeed, for many, it became synonymous with the Internet, even though that is not technically the case. Its birthday offers an occasion to revisit the ways it has made the Internet a part of Americans’ social lives.
Our first report tied to the anniversary looked at the present and the past of the Internet, marking its strikingly fast adoption and assessing its impact on American users’ lives. This report is part of an effort by the Pew Research Center’s Internet Project in association with Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center to look at the future of the Internet, the Web, and other digital activities. This is the first of eight reports based on a canvassing of hundreds of experts about the future of such things as privacy, cybersecurity, the “Internet of things,” and net neutrality. In this case we asked experts to make their own predictions about the state of digital life by the year 2025. We will also explore some of the economic change driven by the spectacular progress that made digital tools faster and cheaper. And we will report on whether Americans feel the explosion of digital information coursing through their lives has helped them be better informed and make better decisions.
This report is a collaborative effort based on the input and analysis of the following individuals.
Webinar slides sept 23 2021 mary aikenCapitolTechU
Capitol Technology University Cap Tech Talks Webinar presented Sept 23, 2021 by Dr. Mary Aiken called “An Introduction to Cyberpsychology: The Impact of Emerging Technology on Human Behavior.”
In "The Future of the Internet IV," Director Lee Rainie reports on the results of a new survey of experts predicting what the Internet will look like in 2020 at the American Association for the Advancement of Science's 2010 Annual Meeting in San Diego.
Future of the Internet Predictions March 2014 PIP ReportVasily Ryzhonkov
This report is the latest research report in a sustained effort throughout 2014 by the Pew Research Center to mark the 25th anniversary of the creation of the World Wide Web by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. He wrote a paper on March 12, 1989 proposing an “information management” system that became the conceptual and architectural structure for the Web. He eventually released the code for his system — for free — to the world on Christmas Day in 1990. It became a milestone in easing the way for ordinary people to access documents and interact over the Internet — a system that linked computers and that had been around for years.
The Web became a major layer of the Internet. Indeed, for many, it became synonymous with the Internet, even though that is not technically the case. Its birthday offers an occasion to revisit the ways it has made the Internet a part of Americans’ social lives.
Our first report tied to the anniversary looked at the present and the past of the Internet, marking its strikingly fast adoption and assessing its impact on American users’ lives. This report is part of an effort by the Pew Research Center’s Internet Project in association with Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center to look at the future of the Internet, the Web, and other digital activities. This is the first of eight reports based on a canvassing of hundreds of experts about the future of such things as privacy, cybersecurity, the “Internet of things,” and net neutrality. In this case we asked experts to make their own predictions about the state of digital life by the year 2025. We will also explore some of the economic change driven by the spectacular progress that made digital tools faster and cheaper. And we will report on whether Americans feel the explosion of digital information coursing through their lives has helped them be better informed and make better decisions.
This report is a collaborative effort based on the input and analysis of the following individuals.
Webinar slides sept 23 2021 mary aikenCapitolTechU
Capitol Technology University Cap Tech Talks Webinar presented Sept 23, 2021 by Dr. Mary Aiken called “An Introduction to Cyberpsychology: The Impact of Emerging Technology on Human Behavior.”
Lee Rainie will present findings from Pew Research Center’s report titled "The Internet of Things Will Thrive by 2025" to the American Bar Association Section of Science & Technology law on March 30, 2016. The report presents the views of hundreds of “technology builders and analysts” on the question of whether Internet of Things will have widespread and beneficial effects on the everyday lives of the public.
Pew Internet Director Lee Rainie was honored to give the Joe Pagano Memorial Web Analytics Lecture for the federal government’s Webmanager University. He discussed the latest Pew Internet data about the triple revolution in technology – in broadband, in mobile, and in social networking – and how these changes affect e-government and e-health activities by citizens. He also explored how these changes impact the broader environment of civic life and some of the changes that are likely on the horizon.
Pew Internet Director Lee Rainie delivered the keynote presentation at WorldFuture 2012 in Toronto on Friday, July 27. The presentation, based on his latest book, Networked: The New Social Operating System (co-authored with Barry Wellman), discussed the findings of the most recent expert surveys on the future of teens’ brains, the future of universities, the future of money, the impact of Big Data, the battle between apps and the Web, the spread of gamification, and the impact of smart systems on consumers.
Lee Rainie, Director of Internet, Science and Technology research at the Pew Research Center in the U.S., will discuss three technology revolutions of the past decade and how a fourth revolution is now underway at the State of the Net conference in Milan, Italy. He will cover global trends in adoption of 1) the internet and broadband; 2) mobile connectivity; and 3) social media and then will discuss how the “Internet of Things” will affect people and businesses in the next decade.
Lee Rainie will present findings from Pew Research Center’s report titled "The Internet of Things Will Thrive by 2025" to the American Bar Association Section of Science & Technology law on March 30, 2016. The report presents the views of hundreds of “technology builders and analysts” on the question of whether Internet of Things will have widespread and beneficial effects on the everyday lives of the public.
Pew Internet Director Lee Rainie was honored to give the Joe Pagano Memorial Web Analytics Lecture for the federal government’s Webmanager University. He discussed the latest Pew Internet data about the triple revolution in technology – in broadband, in mobile, and in social networking – and how these changes affect e-government and e-health activities by citizens. He also explored how these changes impact the broader environment of civic life and some of the changes that are likely on the horizon.
Pew Internet Director Lee Rainie delivered the keynote presentation at WorldFuture 2012 in Toronto on Friday, July 27. The presentation, based on his latest book, Networked: The New Social Operating System (co-authored with Barry Wellman), discussed the findings of the most recent expert surveys on the future of teens’ brains, the future of universities, the future of money, the impact of Big Data, the battle between apps and the Web, the spread of gamification, and the impact of smart systems on consumers.
Lee Rainie, Director of Internet, Science and Technology research at the Pew Research Center in the U.S., will discuss three technology revolutions of the past decade and how a fourth revolution is now underway at the State of the Net conference in Milan, Italy. He will cover global trends in adoption of 1) the internet and broadband; 2) mobile connectivity; and 3) social media and then will discuss how the “Internet of Things” will affect people and businesses in the next decade.
Beyond slogans - Creating Emotionally Relevant ContentGary Edgar
The days of interruption marketing and the 30 second spot are dying. Consumers expect more fulfilling experiences, and for brands, this means emotionally rich stories and content that extend past slogans. Learn why brands like Heineken and Chipotle are investing big in content and how you can create emotional connections too.
Yapı Kredi Kültür'de,
26 04 2007'de yapılan sunum -Türkiye için “Köşeyi Dönme” seçeneği:
Türkiye’nin Bilgi Toplumu’na evrilme şansı var mı?
Köstekler, Destekler ve Politikalar, Fırsatlar ve
Şanslar.
Bugün neredeyiz ve neleri aşmalıyız?
Broad view of the new decade and the new paradigm of Innovation and Knowledge Management. Argues that KM happens at three levels, individual, organizational, societal and we need to focus on all the three levels
Delivered Key Note Address in National Seminar on
"Digital India: Use of Technology For Transforming Society" organized at Gaya College, Gaya on 28th & 29th January, 2017.
Gaya college-gaya-28-29.01.2017-presentation
Paradigm Shift in
Computing Technology, ICT & its Applications: Technical, Social, Economic and Environmental Perspective
Exploring Leadership in Third Industrial Revolution TeiglandRobin Teigland
My presentation at "Leadership in Complex Orgnizations" workshop in Oslo Nov 2013 organized by NHH Focus: http://www.nhh.no/no/forskning-og-fagmilj%C3%B8/handlingsprogrammet-nhh-2021/nhh-2021/focus.aspx
Perspectives on the optical fiber industry where do we go from herePulkit Bhatnagar
Strategy Paper on how successful countries and companies were driving Broadband (... and Optical Fiber usage) and what Fiber manufacturers could learn from these case studies.
First presented - June 2009
The Future of ICT / TIME: Futurist Gerd Leonhard in Cologne (NSN)Gerd Leonhard
Topics:
# The consequences of what I call 'Broadband Culture'
# Why and how digital content, UGC and Social Media are the biggest growth factors for the ICT industries, going forward
# Why telecoms and ICT companies need to get involved with Content, and move up the foodchain
# Why content flat-rates, starting with music, are the way forward, and need to be regulated
# The copy economy vs the access / usage / sharing economy
More on my blog http://tinyurl.com/dx9q2s
The latest in learning philosophy and technology, ICT and the Zettacosm, and the ICT trends and web 2.0 technologies that comprise the Learning 2.0 Ecosystem.
E-governance Culture in Institutions of Higher EducationRamesh C. Sharma
National Seminar on Promoting E-governance Culture in Institutions of Higher Education (March 20-21, 2013), Organized by
Department of B.Ed./M.Ed., Faculty of Education & Allied Sciences, MJP Rohilkhand University, Bareilly (U.P.)-243006 (India)
Strategic Relevance of the Internet Science Network of Excellence to Future I...i_scienceEU
The Network of Excellence in Internet Science aims to achieve a deeper multidisciplinary understanding of the Internet as a societal and technological artefact.
More information: http://internet-science.eu/
Twitter: @i_scienceEU
Global Information Technology Report 2014Elena Kvochko
The Global Information Technology Report 2014 features the latest results of the Networked Readiness Index, offering an overview of the current state of ICT readiness in the world. This year’s coverage includes a record number of 148 economies, accounting for over 98 percent of global GDP. In addition, it features a number of essays that inquire into the rewards and risks accruing from big data, an unprecedented phenomenon in terms of the volume, velocity, and variety of sources of the creation of new data. These essays also advise on the changes that organizations, both public and private, will need to adopt in order to manage, make sense of, and obtain economic and social value from this vast quantity of newly generated data. In addition, the Report presents a wealth of data, including detailed profiles for each economy covered and data tables with global rankings for the NRI’s 54 indicators.
Dijital Ağlar ve Kentsel Yönetişim Politikaları / Digital Networks and the Politics of Urban Governmentality 9 Ekim 2010 Cumartesi 16:00-19:00 - AmberPlatform - VERİKENT / DATACITY Seminerler Dizisi / Seminar Series
Presented at DK05: Open Governance event of Dugumkume - June 22, 2010 Tuesday, 19:00-21:00
Garanti Galeri – Platform Garanti (http://www.dugumkume.org/dk05)
Kent Ekonomisi, Kumelenme Stratejileri ve Kultur Endustrileri: Politika Gerek...Ozgur Uckan
Avrupa ve Türkiye'de Kültür Politikaları / Cultural Policies in Europe and Turkey -
19, 20, 21 Kasım 2009, The Marmara Oteli
IV. Oturum: Kültür ve Ekonomi, Kültür Endüstrileri, 20 Kasım 2009 - Sunum
"Yaratici Yikim": Inovasyon ve Bilgi Yonetimi-Ozgur UckanOzgur Uckan
“ÜNAK 09, Bilgi Çağında Varoluş: Fırsatlar ve Tehditler” yıllık toplantısı kapsamında Yeditepe Üniversitesi'nde 1 Ekim 2009'da saat 10:00 - 12:00 arasında düzenlenen "YENİ BİR DİSİPLİNİN DOĞUŞU BİLGİ VE İNOVASYON YÖNETİMİ” panelinde yapılan sunum
Buyuk Oyun - Ozgur Uckan & Huseyin Alptekin Kitap-lık - 1997Ozgur Uckan
20. yüzyıl başının Büyük Oyun / Le Grand Jeu dergisi ve edebiyat akımı hakkında Özgür Uçkan ve Hüseyin Alptekin tarafından Kitap-lık dergisinde 1997'de yayınlanmış yazılar
Presented by Dr. Ozgur Uckan at Turkey Knowledge Economy Assessment Report Workshop of World Bank, November 5, 2003, Ankara. Presentation focus on ICT & dynamic information infrastructure as a knowledge economy pillar, and treats national ICT policies as a crucial development tool.
Dr. Ozgur Uckan'in Yapi Kredi Kultur Toplantilari dizisinde 26.042007 tarihinde yaptigi sunum: Bilgi toplumu, bilgi ekonomisi ve bilim-teknoloji politikalarinin Turkiye'nin surdurulebilir kalkınmasi acisindan tasidigi onem ve mevcut olumsuz duzenlemelerin yarattigi sorunlar...
"Digital Divide & Turkey". Presented by Dr. Ozgur Uckan at National e-Government Conference (Ulusal e-Devlet Konferansi) holded between 4-5 November 2008 at Ankara, Turkey
The Governance Phobia: The Weakness of National ICT Policy-Making Process in ...Ozgur Uckan
Presented at IceGov International E-Government and E-Governance Conference hold 12-13 March 2009 at Ankar Turkey. The presentation focuses on the weakness of national ICT policy-making process in Turkey during the last decade, mainly on the failure of creating effective governance mechanisms in policy-making and its effect on e-government implementations. Participation of all interested parties and networking them are the keys of successful policy-making process. Turkey's excessively centralized governmental system displays a strong resistance against new administrative paradigms such as governance and its concomitant values, transparency, accountability and participation,
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
6. new rules of the game
Economic Transformation Technological Revolution
g
New Global Economy
New Rules of the Game
Fast Slow
Linked Isolated
Continuous Learning Static
% 100 Trustable < % 100 Trustable
New Opportunities New Challenges
Source:
World Bank
7. knowledge economy
“(Basic economic resource) is knowledge and will
be knowledge…”
Peter F Drucker Post Capitalist Society
F. Drucker, Post-Capitalist
“An economy that makes effective use of knowledge
for its
f it economic and social development. This
i d i ld l t Thi
includes tapping foreign knowledge as well as
adapting and creating knowledge for its specific
pg g g p
needs.”
Knowledge for Development, WBI
8. pillars of the knowledge economy
1. Economic incentive and institutional regime that
provides incentives for the efficient use of existing and
new knowledge and the flourishing of
entrepreneurship
2. Educated, creative and skilled p p
, people
3. Dynamic information infrastructure
4. Effective national innovation system
5. and a fifth and “missing” pillar:
(Knowledge) C lt
(K l d ) Culture
9. dynamic information infrastructure
Building a dynamic information infrastructure, and a
competitive and innovative information sector of the economy,economy,
that fosters a variety of efficient and competitive information and
th t f t i t f ffi i t d titi i f ti d
communications services and tools available to all sectors of
society. This includes not only high-end information and
high-
communication technologies (ICTs) such as the Internet and mobile
telephony but also other elements of an information-rich society
information-
such as radio, television and other media, computers and other
devices for storing processing and using information and a range
storing, information,
of communication services.“
Final Report of the Knowledge Economy Forum - Paris, February 19-22, 2002
19-
10. ICT impact
• Strong impact on productivity and economic
growth
• Gl b li ti of business
Globalization f b i
• Networking of information technology
• New products, services and process
• Transparency Accountability, Participation:
Transparency, Accountability
eGovernance
12. Pew internet survey, December 2006
• 17% of world population use Internet
• 91% of Internet surfers use e-mail
• 91% use search engines
• 67% read news online
• 66% visit government web sites
• 39% read blogs
Photo: Kimi Iwasaki
http://www.flickr.com/photos/quimix/149816828/
16. fuel for the new economy: immaterial investments
1985-1998 1998
10% 10%
10,0%
9%
9,0%
8,0%
7,0%
6,0%
5,0%
3,3%
4,0%
2,9%
2,7%
2 7%
3,0%
2,0%
1,0%
0,0%
USA France
F EU
Source: D. Foray, OECD
After 1998, investing to knowledge in developed countries
(education, Research&Development, software,
(education Research&Development software human resources etc ) increase
etc.) increase.
These investments supply the fuel for the new economy.
20. global bandwidth
0.4
04
USA /
Canada
56 Gbps
Asia / Europe
Pacific
Latin
Africa
America
0.1 Gbps
Note:Gbps=
Note:Gbps= Gigabits (1 000 Mb) per second
(1’000 second.
Source: ITU adapted from
TeleGeography
.
34. position of individual toward media
Old Media New Media
Role Spectator User
Behavior Passive Active
Function Consumer Producer
Location Physical Space Everywhere
(home, office, etc.) (Network)
Kaynak: New Paradigm Learning Corporation, 1997
y g g p ,
35. Convergence
Definition:
Convergence has been made possible by digitalization which allows
different types of content (audio, video, text) to be stored in the same
format and delivered through a wide variety of technologies
(computers, mobile phones, televisions, etc).
There are therefore two b oad
The e a e the efo e t o broad definitions of convergence:
con e gence
• technological and
• media or content.
Technological convergence refers to the trend for some set of
technologies initially having distinct functionalities to evolve to having
those that overlap; it occurs when multiple products come together to
form one product with the advantages of all of them – eg your
computer as purveyor of voice as well as text and graphics; cell
f
phones that provide text and graphics as well as voice.
Convergence in the media refers to the removal of entry barriers
across the IT, telecoms, media and consumer electronics industries,
IT telecoms industries
creating one large ‘converged’ industry.
36. Why does convergence matter?
Around the world, countries are competing for leadership in the global
knowledge economy. Success in this race will depend upon how
g y p p
quickly countries can leverage the opportunities for innovation,
investment and economic growth presented by convergence.
Convergence between the telecoms, IT, consumer electronics,
broadcasting and creative content sectors is now starting to have a
real impact in the globe.
It has the potential to deliver an unparalleled degree of choice,
flexibility
fl ibilit and convenience to users (b th consumers and
d i t (both d
businesses) in terms of the way in which they access and
exploit information, communication and new media content,
services and applications.
Convergence has the potential both to create and to destroy value.
Deloitte predicts that worldwide, it will lead to $1 trillion shift in
valuations and revenues in the converging sectors by 2010. As
such,
such it represents both a disruptive threat and a huge
opportunity for companies of any nation, across a wide and fast
moving global sector...
37. ICT & collision of industries
Source: New Paradigm Learning Corporation, 1996
42. underground living
‘the taisei company's’ ambitious plan
for subterranean living imaginatively
titled li
titl d alice city f
it from Alice in
Ali i
Wonderland offers a utopia that is
almost as fantastical as the book.
56. computer counter-culture
“The fact is that a few of us saw what “We are still enthusiastic about the
was happening and we wrestled the Net,
Net the way Walt Whitman was about
power of LSD away from CIA, and trains and the telegraph. He thought
now the power of computers away they would unite us, make us all a
from IBM, just as we rescued community. He couldn’t predict the
psychology away from the doctors and trains would go to concentration
analysts.” camps.”
Timothy Leary Andrei Codresku
57. William Gibson
Philip K. Dick / Ridley Scott
Bruce Sterling
Neil Stephenson
60. cyberspace
“ Program a map to display frequency data exchange
exchange,
every thousand megabytes a single pixel on a very
large screen. Manhattan and Atlanta burn solid white.
Then they start to pulse, the rate of traffic threatening
to overload your simulation. Your map is about to go
nova. Cool it down. Up your scale. Each pixel a million
megabytes. At a hundred million megabytes p
gy gy per
second, you begin to make out certain blocks in
midtown Manhattan, outlines of hundred-year-old parks
ringing the old core of Atlanta.”
William Gibson, Harper Collins, 1993 (1984), p. 57
61. cyberspace
“A new universe, a parallel universe created and
sustained by the world’s computers and
communication lines A world in which the global traffic
lines.
of knowledge, secrets, measurements, indicators,
entertainment, and alter-human agency takes on form:
sights, sounds, presence never seen on the surface of
g, ,p
the earth blossoming in a vast electronic night.”
Michael Benedikt, Cyberspace: First Steps, 1991
62. cyberspace
“Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced
daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation,
by children being taught mathematical concepts… A
graphical representation of data abstracted from the
banks of every computer in the human system.
Unthinkable complexity Lines of light ranged in the
complexity.
non-space of the mind, clusters and constellations of
data. Like city lights, receding...”
(William Gibson, Neuromancer, 1984, p. 51)
63. cyberspace
“Cyberspace is the ‘place’ where a telephone
conversation appears to occur. Not inside your actual
phone... Not inside the other person’s phone… The
place between the phones. The indefinite place out
there, where the two of you, two human beings,
actually meet and communicate Although it is not
communicate…
exactly ‘real’, ‘cyberspace’ is a genuine place. Things
happen there that have very genuine consequences.
This ‘place’ is not ‘real’, but it is serious, it is earnest ”
place real serious earnest.
(Bruce Sterling, “The Hacker Crackdown, 1992, p. xi-xii)
64. cyberspace
“It is the Broadway, the Champs Élyseés of the
Metaverse. It i th b illi tl lit boulevard… Th
Mt is the brilliantly b l d The
dimensions of the Street are fixed by a protocol,
hammered out by the computer graphics ninja
overlords of the Association for Computing Machinery’s
Machinery s
Global Multimedia Group… Like any place in Reality,
the Street is subject to development. Developers can
build their own small streets feeding off the main one.
They can build buildings, parks, signs, as well as
things that do not exist is Reality, such as vast hovering
overhead light shows and special neighborhoods
g p g
where the rules of three-dimensional spacetime are
ignored. Put a sign or a building on the street and the
hundred million richest, hippest, best-connected people
on the earth will see it every day of their lives..”
(Neil Stephenson, “Snow Crash, 1992, p. 24-25)
65. virtual reality
“Artificially stimulated perception” – Marjan Kindersley
“Virtual Reality won’t merely replace TV. It will eat it alive” – Arthur C. Clark.
“This will represent the greatest event in human evolution. For the first
time, mankind will be able to deny reality and substitute its own preferred
version.” – J.G. Ballard
“A VR is a computer world that tricks the sense or mind. A virtual glove
might give you the feel of holding your hand in water or mud or honey. A
VR cybersuit might make you f l as if you swam th
b it i ht k feel through water or mud
h t d
or honey. VR grew out of cockpit simulators used to train pilots and may
shape the home and office multimedia systems of the future. The idea of
advanced VR systems as future substitutes for sex and drugs and
classroom training is the stock and trade of modern science fiction or
‘cyberpunk’ writing.” – Bart Kosko
“Used today in architecture, engineering and design, tomorrow in mass-
market entertainment, surrogate travel, virtual surgery and cybersex, by
the next century ‘VR’ will have transformed our lives.” – Howard Rheingold
92. a brief history of virtual communities
•1975 – MSGGROUP Mailing List •1992 – “HTTP://” and “URL”
HTTP://” URL”
•1979 – SF-Lovers Mailing List •1992 – “Cypherpunk” (Crypto cultural group)
•1980 – MUD (Multi User Dungeon) •1992 – Project Gutenberg
•1981 – “Usenet” term used on ARPAnet •1993 – Wired Magazine
•1982 – “Newsgroup” term used on ARPAnet •1993 – “Surf” term used for wander on the Net
•1985 – Chain e-mails •1993 – AOL.com gives access to the newsgroups
•1986 – The Well ( Whole Earth ‘Lectronic Link) •1993 – HTML
•1986 – “Netiquette”
1986 Netiquette •1993 – “Netizen”
1993 Netizen
•1988 – “@ ! Party” (Internet and Usenet party) •1993 – “Cybersex” term used for the first time
•1989 – IRC (Internet Relay Chat) •1994 – Epic (Electronic Privacy Information Center)
•1990 – EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) •1994 – “SPAM”
•1991 – “CyberSpace” term applied to the Internet. •1994 – Yahoo!
•1991 – TIN (Newsreader) •1995 – CDA (Communication Desency Act / S.314)
•1992 – WWW •1995 – “Chat Room”
93. a brief history of virtual communities
•1995 – Lycos
•1995 – DejaNews
•1996 – Compuserve.Com
•1996 – WebTV
•1996 – ICQ (I Seek You)
•1998 – Google
•1999 – Melissa Virus
•1999 – Napster
1999
•1999 – FreeNet (Ian Clark)
•2000 – Gnutella
•2000 – Love Bug Virus
•2001 – Yahoo! bought E-groups
•2002-now- mobility & broadband – smartmobs…
94. “The words community and communication have the same root. Wherever you put a
The
communications network, you put a community as well. And whenever you take away that network –
confiscate it, outlaw it, crash it, raise its price beyond affordability- then you hurt that community.”
B. Strerling, The Hacker Crackdown
102. and after
after…
• Web 2.0 Web3.0, 4.0, etc.
• MARC MARCML (or Memo MemoML)
• Search engine Semantic Web
• Descritives FRBR (Functional Requirements for
( q
Bibliographic Records - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FRBRoo ),
Ontologies
• User accounts Avatars
• 217 millions users on neopet > Myspace;
• Habbo users > Facebook;
• There are more videos on CyWorld than
YouTube;
• “Target” is always “younger”…
Source : FredCavazza : http://www.fredcavazza.net/2007/11/07/l%e2%80%99invasion-
des-nouvelles-plateformes-sociales/
103.
104. virtual communities
“When you think of a title for a book, you are forced to
think of something short and evocative, like well, ‘The
Virtual Community,’ even th
Vi t l C it ’ though a more accurate title
h t titl
might be: ‘People who use computers to
communicate, form friendships that sometimes form
the basis of communities, but you have to be careful to
, y
not mistake the tool for the task and think that just
writing words on a screen is the same thing as real
community.’””
Howard Rheingold
105. 2002 2009
2002-2009-…. Mobility … what’s next
what s next…. ?
Smart mobs emerge when communication and computing technologies
amplify human talents for cooperation. The impacts of smart mob
technology already appear to be both beneficial and destructive, used by
some of its earliest adopters to support democracy and by others to
coordinate terrorist attacks. The technologies that are beginning to make
smart mobs possible are mobile communication devices and pervasive
computing - inexpensive microprocessors embedded in everyday objects
and environments. Already, governments have fallen, youth subcultures
have blossomed from Asia to Scandinavia, new industries have been born
and older industries have launched furious counterattacks
counterattacks.
Street demonstrators in the 1999 anti-WTO protests used dynamically
updated websites, cell-phones, and swarming tactics in the battle of
Seattle. A million Filipinos toppled President Estrada through public
demonstrations organized through salvos of text messages.
The people who make up smart mobs cooperate in ways never before
possible because they carry devices that possess both communication
and computing capabilities. Their mobile devices connect them with other
information devices in the environment as well as with other people's
pp
telephones. Dirt-cheap microprocessors embedded in everything f from
box tops to shoes are beginning to permeate furniture, buildings,
neighborhoods, products with invisible intercommunicating smartifacts.
When they connect the tangible objects and places of our daily lives with
the Internet, handheld communication media mutate into wearable
remote control devices for the physical world.
Howard Rheingold, SmartMobs / The Next Social Revolution, Perseus
Publishing, 2002
108. virtual agora
“The most recent incarnation of the agora is neither
The
the shopping mall nor the closed electronic
environment, but may just be the Internet itself. The
agora does not necessarily provide a sense of place,
rather it provides a sense of passage, t
th id f translation and
l ti d
personal freedom. If the Internet can achieve the right
balance of interaction, leisure and commerce it may in
time develop into a g
p genuine community space. While it
yp
continues to mirror the malls, theme parks and office
buildings of the Cartesian world it will never become
the mythical ‘place of meeting’ described by Homer in
the Iliad ”
Iliad.
Michael Ostwald,
“Virtual Urban Futures”, in The Cyberculture Readers,
ed. By David Bell-Barbara M. Kennedy, 2000, p. 673
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