Andrew Lippman

Media Lab

lip@mit.eduJanuary, 2008

Spectral Opportunities

Disruptors: Speed kills

• 2000: Technology was the disruptor

• 2008: The disruptor is speed

• Clock rate of society

• Diffusion of ideas + collaboration

• Business plans go stale quickly

Social development enabled by technology

YouTube 2/14/2005

FaceBook 2/4/2004

Second Life (beta) 2003

Founding Dates

Identity

• A technology is RFID

• Fixed, isolated, imperfect, brittle

Active Identity

• Challenge

• Communicate

• Cooperate

Spectral Examples: Identity

QuickTime™ and aTIFF (LZW) decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

Symmetry

Halifax/San Francisco vs Katrina/VA Tech

The basis is context:

• Who can help

• Who should know

• Mashing up the real world

Spectral Oportunities: Security

It’s not about 911

Opportunistic connectivity -- subscription-free

More radios = more bandwidth

Cooperative application support

Semantic support

Scaling

Breadcrumbs, again

“Communications enhanced voice”

Audio spaces

“Hi-phonelity”

Fluid Voice