Friday, July 29, 2005
ACM News Service:
"'The Weird Web and Other Safety Concerns'
InternetNews.com (07/25/05); Needle, David
Tech visionary Bill Joy, speaking at the recent AlwaysOn Innovation conference, discussed how during his tenure at Sun Microsystems he envisioned the concept of a 'Here Web' that is always accessible through mobile devices. He also talked about the as-yet-unrealized 'Weird Web,' in which humans are connected to any number of objects via sensors. Joy said the Here Web concept is unfolding at a much slower pace than he expected, but cited manifestations of its presence in such technologies as iMode cell phones that support interactive gaming in Japan, and the Palm Treo combination Web browser/personal information manager/mobile phone. Joy discussed the Device to Device Web paradigm, in which 'All devices that have electricity will get connected in a worldwide embedded sensor net.' Technologies such a network could support include pacemakers that call doctors through cell phone links, and shoes that communicate with a PC to record the wearer's walking performance. Bill Joy's controversial opinion that technology needs strict management in order to avoid potentially disastrous consequences, which many people have criticized as alarmist, reared its head at the conference. Silicon Graphics scientist Jaron Lanier argued that society cannot advance without new technology, and pointed to the U.S. government's 'tremendous retreat' from long-term science funding as the latest sign of an anti-science trend sweeping the country.
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"'The Weird Web and Other Safety Concerns'
InternetNews.com (07/25/05); Needle, David
Tech visionary Bill Joy, speaking at the recent AlwaysOn Innovation conference, discussed how during his tenure at Sun Microsystems he envisioned the concept of a 'Here Web' that is always accessible through mobile devices. He also talked about the as-yet-unrealized 'Weird Web,' in which humans are connected to any number of objects via sensors. Joy said the Here Web concept is unfolding at a much slower pace than he expected, but cited manifestations of its presence in such technologies as iMode cell phones that support interactive gaming in Japan, and the Palm Treo combination Web browser/personal information manager/mobile phone. Joy discussed the Device to Device Web paradigm, in which 'All devices that have electricity will get connected in a worldwide embedded sensor net.' Technologies such a network could support include pacemakers that call doctors through cell phone links, and shoes that communicate with a PC to record the wearer's walking performance. Bill Joy's controversial opinion that technology needs strict management in order to avoid potentially disastrous consequences, which many people have criticized as alarmist, reared its head at the conference. Silicon Graphics scientist Jaron Lanier argued that society cannot advance without new technology, and pointed to the U.S. government's 'tremendous retreat' from long-term science funding as the latest sign of an anti-science trend sweeping the country.
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