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

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, is 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(a)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(a)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?"