[User] 3/31 @IFTF Dewayne Hendricks wireless pioneer, activist, FCC techie, and Darknet explorer

[Mike Liebhold]

Dear FrIends

Please join us Tuesday 3/31 in Palo Alto for the next event in the 
Institute for the Future's Second Curve Internet (insurgent Internet)  
Speaker Series Featuring Dewayne  Hendricks ,- a long time wireless 
pioneer, activist for world net development, FCC Techie  and Darknet 
explorer

I hope to see you there!

MIke

Looking Back to Look Forward: The Future of the Internet

In this talk, Dewayne Hendricks will take us on a walk back through 
history— starting with the British science historian James Burke who 
pioneered using the ‘Connections’ methodology—and reveal how the 
principles behind the Internet have manifested themselves before in 
other communications methods. From that perspective, Dewayne will look 
at today’s Internet and speculate on just what its ‘Second Curve’ might 
look like.

o    The rediscovery of the end-to-end principle and how this could be 
put to use.
o    The implications of growing the new Internet from the bottom up 
(grassroots style), rather then top down.
o    The effects of the growth of user owned communications 
infrastructure on the future Internet.
o    How the use of peer-to-peer applications are changing the 
capabilities of the Deep Web (aka Darknet).
o    How wireless devices might change if spectrum policies such as 
'Open Spectrum' were allowed to flourish.

  DATE: Tuesday, March 31, 2015
TIME: 6-8pm
LOCATION: Institute for the Future, 201 Hamilton Ave, Palo Alto, CA

- See more at: http://www.iftf.org/futureoftheinternet/#sthash.5uGB9d7i.dpuf

Looking Back to Look Forward: The Future of the Internet
Dewayne Hendricks  - Wireless Internet Pioneer and former FCC Tech Advisor
DATE: Tuesday, March 31, 2015
TIME: 6-8pm
LOCATION: Institute for the Future, 201 Hamilton Ave, Palo Alto, CA
Powered by IFTF.org Ten-Year Forecast

About Dewayne:
Dewayne Hendricks is currently CEO of Tetherless Access, Inc., based in 
Fremont, California, USA. Tetherless Access offers a comprehensive range 
of products and services, including research and product development, 
for wireless communications via the Internet. He is also a past member 
of the Federal Communications Commission's Technological Advisory 
Council (FCC/TAC), where he served for eight years. In 2002, Wired 
Magazine did a profile on him, titled "Broadband Cowboy."

Prior to forming Tetherless Access, Dewayne was General Manager of the 
Wireless Business Unit for Com21, Inc. He joined Com21 participating as 
Co-Principal Investigator in the National Science Foundation’s Wireless 
Field Tests for Education project. That project successfully connected 
remote educational institutions to the Internet. Test sites ranged from 
rural primary schools in Colorado, USA to a University in Ulaan Bataar, 
Mongolia.

About the Second Curve Internet Speaker Series

This event is part of IFTF’s Second Curve Internet Speaker Series, an 
exploration into the critical elements necessary to reinvent the 
Internet, stemming from our 2014 Ten-Year Forecast research. The series 
gathers leading minds together with IFTF’s deep experience thinking 
about technology and the ways of communicating, coordinating, and 
organizing in the changing world around us.

More Information

     • For more information about the speaker series, please contact 
Carol Neuschul (cneuschul at iftf.org).
     • Join the Second Curve Internet Google Group.
     • For more information about the Second Curve Internet project and 
IFTF’s Ten-Year Forecast, please contact Sean Ness (sness at iftf.org).
     • Follow #reinventthenet, @IFTF, and like the IFTF Facebook page 
for more on reinventing the Internet!
- See more at: http://www.iftf.org/futureoftheinternet/#sthash.5uGB9d7i.dpuf


Event Recordings:

Alas: there were technical problems  recording of the 2/27 Peter 
Eckersley EFF talk, But  - if you missed the first two events in the 
series: with Cory Doctorow and David P. Reed, The Videos are online here:

Redesigns for a Broken Internet - Cory Doctorow [Video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J_9EFGFR-Y
""The Internet's broken and that's bad news, because everything we do 
today involves the Internet and everything we'll do tomorrow will 
require it. But governments and corporations see the net, variously, as 
a perfect surveillance tool, a perfect pornography distribution tool, or 
a perfect video on demand tool—not as the nervous system of the 21st 
century. Time's running out. Architecture is politics. The changes we're 
making to the net today will prefigure the future our children and their 
children will thrive in—or suffer under."

Cooperate and Thrive, or Divide and Conquer?  David P. Reed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RAnHWPS-Iw
"You never step into the same river twice. So it is with the Internet. 
The Internet transcends any particular physical devices, any particular 
services, country boundaries etc. But today it remains a collection of 
rivers, with firm banks, a few major sources, and a vast 
undifferentiated ocean of "consumers."
The Internet has begun to encompass the air around us. That is, almost 
all of us in the West now carry the Internet with us, maintaining 
constant connections to the rivers, attempting to create "rivers" in the 
sky. Technically, rivers in the sky makes no sense at all. What will the 
next phase of the Internet look like? How will it be built?
In this talk we will focus on two major technology issues that challenge 
the future evolution of the Internet—radio networking architecture and 
proximate interaction. In each, the core principles that helped the 
Internet succeed are being discarded. What will happen?"