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Technology: Internet Traffic Forecast to Quadruple By 2015

Contributed by Rick DeVan on June 3, 2011 at 4:03 pm ET

Resource: Internet traffic to quadruple by 2015: Cisco via The Sydney Morning Herald.

Global online traffic will quadruple by 2015 as the number of gadgets linked to the internet climbs to 15 billion, according to a forecast by networking colossus Cisco.

Resource: Cisco Visual Networking Index: Forecast and Methodology, 2010-2015.

Exciting and frightening at the same time.

Filed under Global Aware, Life, Work, and Society, Technology

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Readings: The Asymmetrical Online War

Contributed by Rick DeVan on April 3, 2011 at 9:02 am ET

Resource: The Asymmetrical Online War via NYTimes.com.

…The Internet has transformed many things in the world, but one of its most remarkable effects has been to change the balance of power, not between states, but between entire nations and their citizens.

Thriv’Ability: Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Contributed by Rick DeVan on November 9, 2010 at 5:53 pm ET

Resource: Federal and State Incentives and Laws> related to alternative fuels and vehicles, air quality, fuel efficiency, and other transportation-related topics, via Juicy tax breaks for electric cars at CNN.com.

A database maintained by the U.S. Dept. of Energy. You could get a tax break when buying a fuel-efficient or electric vehicle.

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Getting It: Supercharged WiFi Approved

Contributed by Rick DeVan on September 23, 2010 at 6:43 pm ET

Resource: F.C.C. Opens Unused TV Airwaves to Broadband

“Today’s order finally sets the stage for the next generation of wireless technologies to emerge and is an important victory for Internet users across the country,” Richard Whitt, telecommunications and media counsel in Google’s Washington office, said in a posting on the company’s public policy blog.

Resource: Supercharged WiFi

Hip, hip, hooray!

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Getting It: Supercharged WiFi

Contributed by Rick DeVan on September 13, 2010 at 6:53 pm ET

Resource: F.C.C. Likely to Open New Airwaves to Wireless

This month, the F.C.C. is likely to approve what could be an even bigger expansion of the unlicensed airwaves, opening the door to supercharged Wi-Fi networks that will do away with the need to find a wireless hot spot and will provide the scaffolding for new applications that are not yet imagined.

I’m loving the sound of “…new applications that are not yet imagined.” Has a nice ring to it.

Combine supercharged WiFi with alternative energy products such as Cleveland-based Tremont Electric’s nPower®PEG and we may just have ourselves a future.

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