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Intangible Value, Distributed Organizations, and the Internet World

Explore the evolution of the internet, its role in distributed organizations, and the shift towards intangible value. Discover the implications of this transformation and the readiness of society for the information age.

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Intangible Value, Distributed Organizations, and the Internet World

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  1. Intangible Value,Distributed Organizations, and the Internet World Marshall Symposium The Information Revolution in Mid-Stream: An Anglo-American Perspective Douglas E. Van Houweling DVH@Internet2.edu

  2. Overview • Introduction • History & Background • Today’s Internet • Applications • Information -> Collaboration • Technology • Distributed Organizations • Intangible Value • Implications for an Internet World

  3. Internet History • ARPAnet origins • 1987 -- NSFnet • First large scale deployment of Internet technology • NSF, Merit, IBM, MCI, State of Michigan • 1995 -- Privatization • 1996 -- Internet2 • 34 -> 125 research university members • More than 30 corporate members today

  4. Internet2 Goals • Enable new generation of applications • Re-create leading edge R&E networkcapability • Transfer capability to the global production Internet

  5. Today’s Internet • Growing at 10 - 20% per month • Challenges to higher education • The “world wide wait” • Human interaction awkward • Virtual meetings and seminars • Shared authoring • Browsing publications • Distributed large scale computing and data base efforts not feasible

  6. American Sign Language and English Captions Gallaudet University Georgetown University

  7. Remote Scanning Electron Microscope University of Michigan

  8. PhilipsXL30

  9. 3D Brain Mapping: “Watching the Brain in Action” University of Pittsburgh Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

  10. Upper AtmosphericResearch Collaboratory University of Michigan

  11. Teleimmersion University of Illinois-Chicago University of Illinois-NCSA Old Dominion University

  12. The CAVE Source: University of Illinois-Chicago

  13. Immersadesk Source: University of Illinois-Chicago

  14. Virtual Temporal Bone Source: University of Illinois-Chicago

  15. Today’s Internet focuses on access to and delivery of information Tomorrow’s Internet will support human collaboration in an information-rich environment Trend --Information -> Collaboration

  16. Applications and Engineering Applications Motivate Enables Engineering

  17. Single-Lane Road ->Multi-lane Superhighway Special-purpose lanes Access control Tolls where appropriate End-to-end performance guarantees Quality of Service across multiple providers Support for Internet-based broadcast Authentication & security Faster circuits Technology

  18. Leading edge connectivity for Internet2 Speeds ranging from 60 million to 1 billion characters/second Very high performance Backbone Network Service (vBNS) -- sponsored by NSF and MCI Abilene sponsored by the University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development, with support from Qwest, Nortel, and Cisco vBNS & Abilene

  19. Abilene Announced 14 April

  20. Intangible Value • The world is moving from an economy based on tangibles to one based on intangibles • slower growth in physical flows of material goods & products • faster growth of ethereal streams of data, images, and symbols • Supporting human interaction less constrained by geography & time

  21. Distributed Organizations • VISA International • The Internet • Higher education • The Internet could have scaled nowhere else • All created to convey intangible value • All dependent on information and flexible interorganizational and interpersonal relationships

  22. Implications for an Internet World • The future will undoubtedly be different than we and predict, but we can observe a powerful confluence: • intangible value represented in and transportable though information technology • increasing success of distributed global organizations • an Internet designed to support a world built on human collaboration in an information-rich environment

  23. Are We Ready? • Public support is high -- 78%of Michigan residents say “Michigan is ready for the information age • Connectivity is growing -- 44% of Michigan residents have a network-connected computer, 62% of the national population exchange email at least once/week

  24. Are We Ready? • We still think about mass media, not personal communication • We still measure the economy in terms of tangibles • We still assume organizations are hierarchical • Can the higher education community provide the model for our future?

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