Lifted by the CloudA vision of Cloud-based AccessibilityBased on “BIG Broadband and Gigabit-to-the-Home “

This shortened and narrated presentation by Wayne Caswell was submitted as part of a contest sponsored by the Federal

Communications Commission, the Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities, and Raising the Floor. It’s based on the author’s 2006

presentation on BIG Broadband and Gigabit-to-the-Home.

TelepresenceFor Work, Families & Healthcare

Video conferencing is a great way to keep in touch with office workers on one hand and grandchildren, elderly parents, or caregivers on the other. The technology is available today and rapidly improving as networks get faster.

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TeleworkWorking from Home or on the Go

When telepresence is part of a Telework program, employers can hire the best candidates without uprooting them and their family, and unemployed or

mobility limited knowledge workers can seek new employment anywhere.

Telemedicinea Solution to Rising Healthcare Costs

Healthcare costs are rising faster than inflation and will get worse as baby boomers retire unless something drastic is done with

telemedicine. Telepresence, for example, gives someone with limited mobility or in a remote region access to big city medical services.

Distance Learningfor Keeping Up with Technology

Cloud computing can help reform the education system, from pre-K through college and life-long learning. Kids can learn at their own pace, and adults can develop skills for new job opportunities while still working at the old

job. Course material materials can be adapted for special needs.

L EARN

to EARN

Collaborationworking together to

achieve common goals

Sharing documents with team members through email is so… old school. It’s also less secure than collaborating online and working from the same master copy. That vision

is real today with Google Apps, a collection of cloud-based applications.

Universal DesignSmarter Products for everyone,

regardless of Age, Ability or Statuswith Intelligence in the Cloud

Products designed for niche markets almost always cost more than mass market products, because development serves fewer customers.

So it makes more sense to design products for everyone universally and incorporate different user interfaces for different needs.

Smarter Products

Smarter Homes

Parallel ProcessingIdle PCs with Supercomputer Power

Consumers share their otherwise-idle PCs across high-speed networks to enable a World Community Grid. Parallel processing is then used to split complex tasks into small pieces that can be processed simultaneously on

thousands of personal computers to address complex applications