Rediscovering the Internet #reinventthenet
Rediscovering the Internet
Looking Back to Look Forward: The Future of the Internet
IFTF Second Curve Internet Speaker Series with Dewayne Hendricks— March 31, 2015
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In this talk, Dewayne Hendricks took us on a walk back through history—starting with the British science historian James Burke who pioneered using the 'Connections' methodology—and reveal how the principles behind the Internet have manifested themselves before in other communications methods. From that perspective, Dewayne looked at today's Internet and speculate on just what its 'Second Curve' might look like, including:
- The rediscovery of the end-to-end principle and how this could be put to use
- The implications of growing the new Internet from the bottom up (grassroots style), rather than top down
- The effects of the growth of user owned communications infrastructure on the future Internet
- How the use of peer-to-peer applications are changing the capabilities of the Deep Web (aka Darknet)
- How wireless devices might change if spectrum policies such as 'Open Spectrum' were allowed to flourish
More Dewayne
Dewayne Hendricks is currently CEO of Tetherless Access, Inc., based in Fremont, California, USA. Tetherless Access offers a comprehensive range of products and services, including research and product development, for wireless communications via the Internet. He is also a past member of the Federal Communications Commission's Technological Advisory Council (FCC/TAC), where he served for eight years. In 2002, Wired Magazine did a profile on him, titled "Broadband Cowboy."
Prior to forming Tetherless Access, Dewayne was General Manager of the Wireless Business Unit for Com21, Inc. He joined Com21 participating as Co-Principal Investigator in the National Science Foundation’s Wireless Field Tests for Education project. That project sucessfully connected remote educational institutions to the Internet. Test sites ranged from rural primary schools in Colorado, USA to a University in Ulaan Bataar, Mongolia.
About the Second Curve Internet Speaker Series
This event is part of IFTF’s Second Curve Internet Speaker Series, an exploration into the critical elements necessary to reinvent the Internet, stemming from our 2014 Ten-Year Forecast research. The series gathers leading minds together with IFTF’s deep experience thinking about technology and the ways of communicating, coordinating, and organizing in the changing world around us.
More Information
- For more information about the Second Curve Internet project and IFTF’s futures research, please contact Sean Ness ([email protected]).
- Join the Second Curve Internet Google Group.
- Follow #reinventthenet, @IFTF, and like the IFTF Facebook page for more on reinventing the Internet!