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

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Only Fibers & WavesOnly Fibers & Waves• 98% of the world is interconnected via the UltraNET:

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

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Long-Haul Fiber Backbone

Long-Haul Fiber Backbone

Metro Ring

Submarine

Fiber Link

gilleo

RF Wireless

Satellite RF

Regional Ring

Free Space Photonics

amplifiers

Submarine

Fiber Link

Still a Net-Centric WorldStill a Net-Centric World

RF Wireless

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Personal GearPersonal GearPersonal Interface

(PI)

Yes, you can store your 20,000 songs but why bother.Just buffer as you go

Storage is mainly solid-state including rewritable photonic crystals

iPodder

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Personal Interface (PI)Personal Interface (PI)

The optional HUB. Use like

watch or clip on

iHUD

RF/ID Ring – transactions, etc.

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PI ContinuedPI Continued

computersee

talk

books

E-Zines

navigationtransactions

hear

TV

training/edu

work

music

•Uses for: Personal cinema Music TV ; wireless link UtraNET text/voice/video Conferences Photography Maps/guide Books Instructions Computation Transactions Security Data Bank Heath monitor

Security data

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Hardware ImplantsHardware Implants

• Audio and RFID were 1st before 2010

• Computer/storage now common

• Retinal is possible, but not common

• Direct to brain still in lab

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GadgetsGadgets

• Mostly personal

• Design your own is popular Very trendy

Not too expensive

Parts libraries

Great simulation software

Companies will buy good ideas

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

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2-way distance learning is popular. It became true “hands on” pioneered in the at the turn of the century.

EducationEducation

The late Dr. Robert Ballard, oceanographer, explorer and educator, started a revolution, now called the Ballard System

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Distance LearningDistance Learning

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

Highly personalized and adaptive.

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SimEdSimEd• “Super Simulation” - 3D virtual reality – students

produce virtual outcome.

• “Real Time Reality” – Students/team produces real outcome.

• “Apprenticeship” – Certification - successful remote job

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Super SimulationsSuper Simulations