- Joined
- Dec 31, 2004
- Location
- Osan AB, South Korea
I thought it might be intersesting to bring some smart people together and see what we can come up with. You know the network I'm talking about: The ones you see in sci-fi stories, where everyone is always wirelessly connected to a global network (the internet?) that you can do anything on...Think Minority Report, I Robot, etc. If anyone here was a part of I Love Bees, think of the scene where he goes "off the grid": No phone, no email, heck, the cab driver won't give him a ride.
Questions to think about:
-Why would we need/not need this kind of a network? Advantages/Disadvantages.
-How would people interface with it? What kind of devices should there be (consumer, buisness, infrastructure), what features would they have, how would you interface?
-Would it be required to be on the network 24/7? Why/Why not?
-What would the infrastructure look like? Protocols, hardware, etc.
-Who would maintain/run it?
-Could it be built out of the current Internet or would a brand new network need to be devised?
Feel free to add your own.
My thoughts: I'd always thought it would be cool to have a pair of "sunglasses" that were actually a set of (3D?) monitors. Think of a wearable PDA. The only hitch would be interfacing...I was thinking along the ways of eye tracking technology (blink once for left click, twice for right ) or voice recognition...
I think that all devices should not use IP addresses, but instead a MAC address given at "birth" and that it would retain through its life. When you turn it on, it would associate with the closest access point (wireless, of course) and instead of the access point DHCPing the device an IP, it would check that MAC against a "master list" of sorts.
IDK, I'm just kinda rambling on. What do you guys think?
Questions to think about:
-Why would we need/not need this kind of a network? Advantages/Disadvantages.
-How would people interface with it? What kind of devices should there be (consumer, buisness, infrastructure), what features would they have, how would you interface?
-Would it be required to be on the network 24/7? Why/Why not?
-What would the infrastructure look like? Protocols, hardware, etc.
-Who would maintain/run it?
-Could it be built out of the current Internet or would a brand new network need to be devised?
Feel free to add your own.
My thoughts: I'd always thought it would be cool to have a pair of "sunglasses" that were actually a set of (3D?) monitors. Think of a wearable PDA. The only hitch would be interfacing...I was thinking along the ways of eye tracking technology (blink once for left click, twice for right ) or voice recognition...
I think that all devices should not use IP addresses, but instead a MAC address given at "birth" and that it would retain through its life. When you turn it on, it would associate with the closest access point (wireless, of course) and instead of the access point DHCPing the device an IP, it would check that MAC against a "master list" of sorts.
IDK, I'm just kinda rambling on. What do you guys think?