January 25th, 2008LIFT08 and The Future of Wireless
Myself/WirelessNorth.ca be running a workshop at LIFT this year on “Open and the Future of Wireless”. And you are invited! With spectrum auctions upcoming in Canada (and elsewhere) opportunities are emerging to reboot the way we think about mobile connectivity and computing. So we’ll be gathering a brace of smart people at LIFT to envision/design/prognosticate the future of wireless.
As more applications move to the web, software and media are moving to a model of cloud computing. At the same time, better devices and faster, more affordable wireless networks, are making it possible to stay connected almost anywhere.
Together these trends should ultimately, and fundamentally change the tools we use to live, work, play, govern and more. However, how will this future play out?
In particular, what role might “open” models play into our expected -or- ideal vision of the future?
If you registered for Lift head on over to this page to register for the workshop. Looks like we’ll have a good crowd there already. Should be fun!
Photo: leaping over a “Lift+” installation in the networking/art area outside Lift07
UPDATE: Michael Arrington has some good coverage of business and FCC leaders at Davos on much the same topic. Looking forward to continuing this conversation in Switzerland in just several days.
