Blunt Perspectives

What will we find at Tech Policy Summit aka #tps09 and the Broadband Summit #tpsbb tomorrow?  

Follow me @wirelesscott on twitter as well as#tps09 and #tpsbb for live updates and coverage of the Tech Policy Summit 3-day event by @TechPolicy (website/agenda click here).

There are some excellent speakers and notable folks (except me, wah wah), which can either mean great thought-provoking debates or dreary self-stroking discussion and manifesto, depending on whether or not Mercury is in retrograde.  I’m obviously hoping for  and as an audience member, I will of course be outspoken as usual on the topic at-hand to promote debate instead of pure discussion.

What goals do I have here?  I plan to represent broadband’s best interests, which to me is the end-user and the applications.  ”Broadband is only as good as the applications that successfully side over it.” I like to say.  And the applications are only as useful as the (quantity and type) of people who have access to them.

Megabits to the Masses!!!

I want “megabits to the masses” – which is hundreds of megabits at home and the office, with tens of megabits on the road.  I believe in hyper-connectivity and useful mobility (useful again being perceptive and personal in nature) to create seamless personal connectivity for as reasonably many humans as possible.  I believe in open-standards and standards-based platforms.  I believe in profits after a social benefit is met (by belief of a socialist moral underpinning w/ capitalist economy = near perfection).  I believe in fostering competition, research and development (= progress).  I believe in technology’s ability to improve education and healthcare and to solve problems of old.  I believe in thinkers who will try to keep future problems at bay like cyber-security, personal security and disaster prevention.

I believe we will achieve these goals.  

Do I believe we will tackle all of these goals?  Not tomorrow, but I do hope we will touch on them.  And just as I have over my past decade in the broadband space, continue to promote these ideas through my public and private work, in the public as an outspoken thought-leader to help align the stars and  in the private side as a pioneer and catalyst to the creation and propagation of these ideas through capitalism, thus establishing de facto industry standards with hope to push the de jure along (keeping it open, however.

Time to get back to work, then to sleep.  

Follow me @wirelesscott on twitter as well as #tps09 and #tpsbb for live updates and coverage of the Tech Policy Summit 3-day event by @TechPolicy (website/agenda click here).

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