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Overview: "The End of Stovepiping"
Overview: "The End of Stovepiping"
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To get his talk under way, he called attention to a recent agreement between Twentieth Century Fox and Vodaphone under which the studio would develop one-minute original episodes of the television show 24 for distribution beginning in 2005 over cell phone handsets in the U.K. He expressed doubt that, 5 years before, many people would have imagined themselves watching an episode of a television show that was not going to be available via television, let alone that there would be a major new form of entertainment having mobile handsets as its platform.
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Raduchel observed, so that applications will always emerge "in a way that looks unique in the beginning but over time becomes blended in with the overall theme of information technology." Because analog solutions (which was all that existed until the 1980s except in some limited fields of computing) were available before digital solutions, each developed into a separate industry.
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Raduchel stated, adding that "everything is just bits" in the world that has resulted from this "very profound technology change." Technology Change is Not Over Dr. Raduchel noted that Intel had recently made public its engineers' prediction that the minimum 30 percent annual rate of improvement sustained by semiconductor performance for the previous two decades would remain a constant for at least 10 and, possibly, 20 more years -- that is, that Moore's Law would continue in force.
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Raduchel as "a way of going from your personal computer to your TV set seamlessly, wirelessly, instantly." Also coming was wireless broadband beyond WiMax, "one of the most fascinating developments" and among the topics to be addressed by another of the day's speakers, Dave Lippke of HighSpeed America. WiMax itself was capable of speeds up to 250 Mbit per second -- "really high-speed transmission," he observed, "lighting the whole country." Storage Capability Skyrocketing The advances in storage would be as large as those in any other technology.
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"They live on their PC and their cell phone," he said, explaining that their primary music and video device is the former, and that their main communication takes place via instant messaging and cell phone. The students spend about 6 hours a day online as opposed to less than 6 hours a week watching television in the traditional sense; live sports account for half of that viewing time.
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Soccer was to be among the offerings on the video channels, but otherwise programming had not yet been set. In addition, SIM cards like those used in GSM phones were expected to be made available to cell phone users by South Korean banks; installing the card would equip a phone with a fingerprint reader linked to the bank, thereby turning it into a banking terminal.
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Raduchel's presentation had set the stage for a discussion of policy, Dr. Jorgenson proposed leaving comments and questions until after the following speaker, Peter Tenhula of the Federal Communications Commission.
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