Giga Era is more than 50 years old

Giga Era is more than 50 years old. Backplane designs grew at 1 Gigabit Per year. We are now at 60 Gigabits 1

Only Fibers & Waves • 98% of the world is interconnected via the Ultra. NET: § Glass fiber § Plastic fiber – a nano material § Wireless is the final link. • Satellite used for remote areas and the oceans • The entire system is cellular-ized. • Everyone has a unique number based on their DNA 2

Still a Net-Centric World Satellite RF Submarine RF Wireless Fiber Link amplifiers Regional Ring Free Space Photonics Long-Haul Fiber Backbone Metro Ring RF Wireless gilleo Submarine Fiber Link 3

Personal Gear Personal Interface (PI) Storage is mainly solidstate including rewritable photonic crystals i. Podder Yes, you can store your 20, 000 songs but why bother. Just buffer as you go 4

Personal Interface (PI) i. HUD RF/ID Ring – transactions, etc. The optional HUB. Use like watch or clip on 5

PI Continued • Uses for: § § § § 6 Personal cinema data Music Security TV ; wireless link Utra. NET text/voice/video TV E-Zines Conferences books Photography music hear Maps/guide transactions Books navigation Instructions training/edu talk computer Computation see Transactions work Security Data Bank Heath monitor

Hardware Implants • Audio and RFID were 1 st before 2010 • Computer/storage now common • Retinal is possible, but not common • Direct to brain still in lab 7

Gadgets • Mostly personal • Design your own is popular § § Not too expensive § Parts libraries § Great simulation software § 8 Very trendy Companies will buy good ideas

“We need a knowledge-based society more than a knowledge-based economy” 9

Education 2 -way distance learning is popular. It became true “hands on” pioneered in the at the turn of the century. The late Dr. Robert Ballard, oceanographer, explorer and educator, started a revolution, now called the Ballard System 10

Distance Learning Early Ballard Enchanted Learning: 2 -way distance; see, hear, control and this is still today’s model. Highly personalized and adaptive. 11

Sim. Ed • “Super Simulation” - 3 D virtual reality – students produce virtual outcome. • “Real Time Reality” – Students/team produces real outcome. • “Apprenticeship” – Certification - successful remote job 12

Super Simulations 13