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Why Broadband is Crucial?Broadband is usually defined in technological terms. Somedefinitions emphasize the expanding breadth of its technicalcapacity while others emphasize its boosts in transmissionspeeds; 19 however, such definitions are frozen in time and missthe essential point: broadband is better understood as acommunications medium for shaping human behavior the impactof which is destined to rise exponentially over time. Thoughmany efforts are being made to predict the impact of broadbandon nations, the fact is that broadband’s impact is unknowable.Though this notion sounds futuristic, broadband is not a newconcept. It has always been referred in telecommunications as awide range or “band” of frequencies which may be divided intochannels. The basic rule is that the wider the bandwidth, thegreater the information-carriage capacity. Consider radio, a verynarrow band will carry Morse code; a broader band will carryspeech; a broader band will carry music; and even morebandwidth can enhance the quality of the music, communicatingsubtle nuances of melody and pitch – music that moves us. Thus,high-bandwidth sound can come to us as an immersiveexperience. Compared to radio, broadband internet can be muchmore impactful. Noting that it is still in its infancy, and that itsreach is spreading all throughout the world, broadband maybecome humanity’s most powerful tool for shaping humanexperience.Broadband is just “fast Internet.”It is better defined as a medium for transforming human behavior.Eventually, broadband ecosystems will produce immersive experiences.These experiences can move us emotionally, spiritually.19 Perhaps the best explanation of the meaning of broadband, and how the definitions of broadband has been used tosupport various How technological, they move economic us and could political affect biases, the can be future found in of “Next human Generation civilization.Connectivity,” a 2009report from the Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society.http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/pubrelease/broadband/Meaningful Broadband Report 2.0 BROADBAND THAILAND 2015 30
For What Purpose?Broadband’s performance/price ratio tends to double every 12-Like the human bodyitself, broadband maybecome a meta-medium,absorbing andintegrating other mediaand mediating ourrelationship to theoutside world.15 months, a trajectory that mimics Moore’s Law, which since thelate 1960s has effectively predicted the trajectory of semiconductorchips. 20 In other words, in the year 2015, which is abenchmark for this report, the impact of broadband may be fivetimes greater than it is today. We know the experiences that cancome to us through a telephone modem operating at 56,000 bitsper second. Fiber optic cable can transmit data 2,000 timesfaster. “Can we even imagine how this technological capacity canbe harnessed for human benefit?” asks MIT Media Lab’sAlexander Pentland. 21Prof Pentland asks us to step back to see the big picture. Like thehuman body itself, broadband may become a meta-medium,absorbing and integrating other media and mediating ourrelationship to the outside world, he says. Our mobile devicesmay become universal, ubiquitous remote control devices,shaping our ties to immediate physical environments. Unlike dialupinternet, Broadband is “always on,” not limited by geographicbarriers. It multitasks without accumulating stress. It can followour orders without complaint. “Broadband is a human right of the21 st century,” says Salman Zafar, Chief Technology Officer forNokia Siemens Network-Indonesia. 2220 www.infodev.org/en/Document.565.pdf21 Alex Pentland, who directs the “Digital Life” program of MIT Media Lab, presents an astute lectureon the future impact of digital technology on human experience in this site:http://www.organizationaldynamics.upenn.edu/od.cgi/pentlandmenu.html22 Interview in Jakarta at The Habibie Center with Mr. Salman Zafar, November 24, 2009.Meaningful Broadband Report 2.0 BROADBAND THAILAND 2015 31
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