Nicholas Negroponte’s presentation of the American Academy for the Advancement of Sciences revealed production of his OLPC units have surpassed 110,000/month. The conference theme is “Science and Technology from a Global Perspective” is underway in Boston this week.
He has also projected next year the price will drop to $100/unit, the original price tag when the project began…and should drop to just $50 in 2011.
Tags: OLPC, Negroponte, globalization, trends
Bucks County PA has been getting attention by driving Internet2 into schools to better prepare their students for their networked futures. As reported by campustechnology.com has a new article about their community college‘s upgrade to take advantage of Internet2’s video conferencing capabilities and the switch from IPv4 to the emerging IPv6. They have also migrated their email system to Google’s free Gmail service for education.
Tags: Internet2, network, Bucks County, Community College, globalization, open source, economic development, trends
Indiana University’s Advanced Network Management Laboratory (ANML) highlights the new BoreasNet optical network below. Boreas increases number of facilities managing optical networks in the Midwest.
Michigan, Ohio and Indiana have established networks while Boreas covers schools including Iowa State University, the University of Iowa, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
As defined by ANML advanced networks are a catalyst for high-tech economic development, especially in today’s globalized world. You can view the entire map in acrobat format.
Tags: ANML, optical network, Midwest, Boreas, globalization, network, Milwaukee, economic development, trends
Milwaukee has just been added by Google to their cool interactive Street View component of Google Maps? What a cool technology for the city and organizations to exploit in Google’s popular mapping service.
So feel free to email anyone and send a link permitting visitors to interactively tour Milwaukee via Google’s panoramic street view component. No mention in local media (newspapers, TV or radio) about Milwaukee joining this cool web tool.
With linking and embedding supporting this will provide a great resource for Web2.0 tools as well….like building the interactive frame right into your blog:
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Milwaukee joins great cities including San Francisco, LA, San Diego, Las Vegas, Denver, Dallas, Minneapolis, Chicago, Miami, New York City, Boston and Orlando with support for Google’s street view technology.
It may surprise some around town that many established cities (including Seattle) are not yet supporting street view.
Wish the resolution of their camera was better….but its a cool start.
Tags: Google Maps, street view, interactive, VR, panoramic photography,
Web2.0, cool, trends
MIT’s Technology Review has published a new article reviewing a new dynamic circuit test network to test how advanced networks, primarily located in academia can be moved to the commercial internet.
The dynamic circuit network provides a temporary connection to another location … like making a phone call: the user’s data would be carried directly to that other location, uninterrupted by the traffic of others sharing the network.
Eventually the technology advances from this test network could provide a solution to sending HD video over the regular internet.
Tags: Internet2, dynamic circuit network, HD video, globalization, network, trends