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Title: The Wireless Revolution


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The Wireless Revolution
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Dr. Tal Lavian http//cs.berkeley.edu/tlavian tla
vian_at_cs.berkeley.edu UC Berkeley Engineering, CET
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What is a technological revolution?
  • Historical period when dramatic socioeconomic
    change results from a technological evolution.

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What is a technological revolution?
  • Historical period when dramatic socioeconomic
    change results from a technological evolution.
  • The Printing Press
  • Gutenberg, c. 1650

Started the Information Revolution
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What is a technological revolution?
  • Historical period when dramatic socioeconomic
    change results from a technological evolution.
  • The Spinning Jenny
  • Patented 1770 by James Hargreaves

Started the Industrial Revolution
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The Computer a Modern Technological Revolution?
  • Is it too early to declare this
    inventionrevolutionary?
  • The computer
  • Z1Boolean logic 1938
  • ColossusWWII decryption

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Effects of Computing
  • The Apollo astronauts carried slide rules to
    space
  • The Apollo computer had only 72KB of ROM
  • Can you name some example of how faster, massive
    computation abilities have affected the progress
    of science and technology since the 1950s?

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The Internet a Modern Technological Revolution?
  • Is it too early to declare this
    inventionrevolutionary?
  • The internet
  • ARPANET1969
  • TCP/IP1974

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Effects of Internet
  • As of June 2014, only 42.3 of the world actually
    uses the internet. (87 in North America, 26 in
    Africa)
  • And yet, it affects
  • Business practices, Information
    availability, Privacy,
  • Communication, Socialization,
    Media
  • Can you name another medium that makes instant
    information, instant long-distance communication,
    and instant massive audience available to the
    common man?

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Wireless Revolution?
  • Are smartphones and wireless technologies a
    technological revolution?
  • How are Smartphones different fromcomputers,
    internet?

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The Wireless Revolution
  • A synergistic convergence of revolutions in
  • Bandwidth
  • Cloud computing
  • Apps
  • Social networking
  • Size
  • Battery life
  • Computing efficiency
  • Screen
  • Result MOBILITY
  • Why is mobility significant?

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Bandwidth
  • Current advancement 10s of megabits per second
  • Almost free
  • Whenever, wherever
  • Significance
  • Allows for off-phone computation and storage, via
    apps and cloud computing
  • Social networking (aka, more business
    opportunities)
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