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Thinking Outside the Internet

	By Bob Frankston IEEE Fellow
	March 08, 2014 Views: 15,180 Add Comment

Below is a talk I gave at Google in Cambridge January 6, 2014. Some may know this as Ambient or Borderless Connectivity, but I’m titling this post as “Thinking Outside the Internet.” It builds on my Three Stages of Digital theme, outlining how we are shifting from a telecom-centric framing with meaning and value inside the wire to today’s Internet in which meaning and value are no longer contained within channels.

In this article I go into more detail about the distinction between connectivity and the message passing that makes devices like cell phones gatekeeping intermediaries.

The talk builds on the ideas in Refactoring CE and other writings. I’m now using the term “Borderless connectivity” which may work better than “Permissionless Ambient Connectivity” to emphasize the theme of thinking outside the Internet.

Below is the video recording followed by the first few slides from the presentation:

By Bob Frankston, IEEE Fellow

Bob Frankston is best known for writing VisiCalc, the first electronic spreadsheet. While at Microsoft, he was instrumental in enabling home networking. Today, he is addressing the issues associated with coming to terms with a world being transformed by software.

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