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Futurist Keynote - Articles and Videos - Future of Telecom, Mobiles, Smartphones
Telecoms: It is all accelerating - making the doubling of computer power every 18 months look like solid lumps of unchanging rock. Take a mobile phone working in 2000 at 9.6k per sec. In less than two years they will be offering up to 2,000k per sec. That's a mega-jump!
Archive from Nov 1997 - for historic interest.
Read more: Telephone Revolution and Networking - ARCHIVE 1997
Futurist Keynote - Articles and Videos - Future of Telecom, Mobiles, Smartphones
Videoconferencing is a practical solution for virtual board meetings and team discussions. In fact it's the only solution for distance co-operation, with shared documents on screen and other features.
Article written in 1999 (many issues still current in 2008).
Futurist Keynote - Articles and Videos - Future of Telecom, Mobiles, Smartphones
By 2001, the videoconferencing market will reach $5 billion with by far the greatest growth in the desktop segment from about $300 million in 1996 to $3 billion in 2001. Source: Teleconferencing Markets and Strategies: From Novelty to Necessity. Archive material 1997 - historical interest.
Futurist Keynote - Articles and Videos - Future of Telecom, Mobiles, Smartphones
Making video clips for youtube on early iphone is more difficult than on smart phones which have two cameras.
Futurist Keynote - Articles and Videos - Future of Telecom, Mobiles, Smartphones
Nokia 9000 Series and Speech Recognition.
ARCHIVE PAGE 1997 FOR INTEREST
Read more: Smart watches - speech recognition - ARCHIVE 1997
Futurist Keynote - Articles and Videos - Future of Telecom, Mobiles, Smartphones
"Growing evidence that mobile phone radiation affects living tissues - health risks?"
Video comment by Dr Patrick Dixon on research showing possible health risks from heavy exposure to mobile phone radiation. Risks probably very small in normal use.
Futurist Keynote - Articles and Videos - Future of Telecom, Mobiles, Smartphones
Why videolinks can be better than being there in person. Limits to globalisation with current management models. World-class remote lecturing.Dr Patrick Dixon - Videoconferences.
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