Panel debate at FutureEverything -
www.futureeverything.orgThis is the background to the session from the FutureEverything website.
"First generation broadband technology gave millions of users an ‘always-on’ connection to the net for the first time. This led to unforeseen, unanticipated and disruptive new applications like Wikipedia and Youtube. Next generation fibre optic broadband will be an even bigger challenge, with the potential for almost unlimited bandwidth and latency approaching zero. The chances are technology will have taken another step ahead of imagination.
Can we imagine? Can we anticipate the sort of new applications and services that might develop? More importantly, what new technologies will become possible with effectively unlimited bandwidth and near-zero latency?"
Infinite Bandwidth, zero latency panel starting at #futr
twitpic.comShaun Fennsom introducing - he says no one predicted YouTube or Wikipedia - created by people contributing from all over the planet and as free resource.
No one anticipated Facebook or Twitter.
Some changes we can see - but most of the really big, disruptive changes were n't seen at all. An overfoucus on speed. A lack of understanding of latency and jitter.
With fibre, says Shaun, there is essentially unlimited bandwidth - and what does this do? New networks are coming with much lower latency (the time it takes for the information to get to where it's going). If latency is not an issue, what's happening and what could happen?
Ken's first slide at #ibzl #futr
twitpic.comProf Ken Eason - Loughborough Uni - and a big name one of the inventors of the whole field of Human Computer Interaction
Themes from #ibzl workshop yesterday #futr
twitpic.comKen says the massive change will happen when it's even easier for people to generate their own content. This will be amazing he says.
The concept of Artisans and craftspeople getting together is very exciting he says. And social space will change dramatically - what would an IBZL -enabled social space enable.
Ken's web at Loughborough
www.lboro.ac.uk publications:
cisinfo.lboro.ac.ukLooking at implications of infinite bandwidth & zero latency on future tech at #futureeverything #ibzl
damn , too long a meeting so missing the infinite bandwith event @ FuturEverything . hoping twitter will give me a flavour #ibzl #futr
Trevor Wood Harper - Manchester Business School - a computer scientist by background, systems developer. Learned that "Original Thinking Applied" is needed - practice, use learn and come back. The pace of change is so high it's difficult to deal with.
Trevor says we need a new understanding of socio-materiality - the Universities need to understand this - and if we don't understand it then we have a problem.
Tony Hirst - interested in the latency mapping and vendor realtionship management. We were assuming IBZL - but how do we get around frictions in the system even when we have zero latency.
We need control over the data we own.
Mike Ryan - Idaho a futurologist and big data guy.
Sees the parallels between the railway network and IBZL - what if we could travel from London to Manchester in 2 seconds - analog for IBZL
Clem Hermann - OU. Looks at inequalities and social issues around technology. And digital inclusion. How do we assure that the increase in bandwidth is spread to all? This is a big issue. "Don't squirt more bits at me" a la Negroponte. Need more intelligence in the way the internet is used.
We need ways of filtering that we control and we neeed to have control over our personal data.
Travelling by train frm Mcr to London in 2secs. Nice analogy. #ibzl #futr
Point from audience participant:
"The technology we are inventing is beyond our capacity - I am underwhelmed, overwhelmed. I am pissed off by the negativity of the debate surrounding."
"How the hell can I communicate the language if I don't understand the concepts".
Mike says we need to keep our feet on the ground. Technology 'creeps' up on you he says - look at Facebook, look at iPlayer. How old is the internet - iPlayer is 2, the App Store is 2. Technology creeps up behind you and you are using it before you know where you are.
Mike draws the analogy between First Generation broadband; maybe the search we do is First Generation search?
Mike says we expect to move from the Knowledge Economy to the Care Economy.
Technology creeps up behind you. Try not to jump if it says boo! #ibzl #futr
Artistic director of Contact - "A lot of this is about language and marketing". Mentions CultureHub in NY. When you try to use this stuff for collaborative music - latency becomes clear.
"We are behind on the artistic side we need better tools for documenting this".
Trevor says we need to understand the richness of the research available in the area.
[sorry - it's v difficult to blog and talk] Fab point from Contact director re difficulty of documenting this stuff.
Clem says we are looking at CyborgLife - and the enmeshing of technologyin our lives. Technology use is becoming increasingly seamless - what happens when everything is connected. Ideas about smarthomes.
Clem, Ken and a thoughtful @shaunfensom at #ibzl #futr
twitpic.comQ from audience - cultural practitioners and technologists generate a lot of 'bullshitty' language and we need to slap ourselves on the wrists about it. Latency and cultural practice - we don't need to wish latency away - there may be cultural potential in it.
Q - from BBC North - likes talking about the Cyborg life - but many people don't want to be online and they don't want to know. Government is going online. We need stuff that works. What will work? And what would work for other people.
Ken says the digital divide is important. Need to bring stuff usefully into people's lives without them being overwhelmed. They need to keep control of it or they will switch off.
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