2. Let’s Talk
• A Brief History
• Then vs. Now
• Current Trends
• X-Media In Action
• Takeaways
3. •Journeys open humankind to accelerating
information, knowledge, progress
Map of the Ancient Silk Road
4. The Silk Road Journey
• YEARS via Walking
– Marco Polo’s Journeys
– Traveled Silk Road routes
between 1260 to 1269 and 1271
to 1295
– Venice to Beijing on land is
approximately 10000 km
– Few traveled the entire way
5. The Silk Road Journey
• MONTHS via the Sea
– Mediterranean Sea,
Red Sea and Indian
Ocean
– About 9000 nautical
miles one way
– Portuguese reached
the East by sea via
Atlantic in 1498
6. The Silk Road Journey
• WEEKS via the Mechanical
Horse
– Railroad tracks not
completed until 1900
– Truck and automobile
still predominant for
trade
7. The Silk Road Journey
• DAY via Aircraft
– First China Clipper
flights in 1935
– Daily Flights between
Italy and Beijing today
– 12 to 14 hour flight time
8. The NEW Silk Road
• HOURS via Wired
– First telegraph line across
the English Channel in 1850
– First 36 channel transatlantic
cable in 1955
– Now 1.263 billion phones
worldwide
– Approx 18 per 100 inhabitants
globally
9. The NEW Silk Road
• MINUTES via Wireless
– Terrestrial wireless
requires microwave
towers every 25 miles
– Satellite relay 0.25 of a
second to reach and
return from the satellite
– Carries only 1 percent of
international traffic due to
limited bandwidth
10. The NEW Silk Road
• SECONDS via Fiber Optics
– Internet Protocol
– 100 km between repeaters
– First transatlantic cable
installed in 1988
– Submarine cables carry
terabits per second vs.
megabytes per second via
satellite
11. The NEW Silk Road
• UBIQUITOUS via Wireless Devices
– 4.3 billion mobile subscriptions
– 57 phones per 100 inhabitants globally
– Approaching 5 billion by the end of
2010
– Outpacing all other forms of
connection
– 4G and WiMax
13. Communication Innovation
• Between wireless device penetration, transcontinental fiber
optic cable, IP connectivity, and cloud services
– Two people can talk any time, anywhere, on demand
– Drastically reduced time and cost of messaging
– Human interaction increases geometrically
– World Wide Web of Networks and Interconnections
– Anyone can now learn anything from anyone at anytime
28. Trends
“Science fiction does not
remain fiction for long. And
certainly not on the
Internet.”
— Vinton Cerf
“The Internet is just a
world passing around
notes in a classroom.”
— Jon Stewart
29. What are the Current Trends?
• Everything is Digital – Everything
– All businesses and economies are affected
• Social and Collaborative Networks – in the Clouds
– Students are Social and Collaborative Beings
• Rise of Devices
– The Internet of Things is coming, get on board
31. Audio, Video, Books, … Conversation
“What is the use of a book’,
thought Alice, ‘without pictures
or conversations?’”
— Lewis Carroll
32. Current Trend:
Networking and Collaboration – In the Clouds
• Cloud Computing
• Social Networks
• Crowdsourcing Education
33. The Internet is the Cloud
"The Internet is the first thing that
humanity has built that humanity doesn't
understand, the largest experiment in
anarchy that we have ever had.“
— Eric Schmidt, CEO
“The Net treats censorship as a defect and
routes around it.”
—John Gilmore, Activist
71. Takeaways
• Historical Acceleration of Change
• Digital Natives vs. Digital Immigrants
• Mobile is Soon to be the New Normal
• Multi-Touch Multi-Channel Works
• Launch & Learn
Everything is Digital and Always available
On Demand by Everyone who are
Inter-Connected via The Cloud which is Everywhere.
72. Network with me
Jeffrey Stewart
Partner/Chief Technical Officer
Trekk Cross-Media
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