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4 Responses to “Modern History of Communication”

1. the terminal of geoff goodfellow Says:
   June 26th, 2010 at 8:03 pm

   in furtherance of The Modern History of Communication — to wit and specifically The Cell Phone:

   Hear the story of the invention of the cell phone from the man whose team came up with it at Motorola. The inventor, Martin Cooper, is still at it, improving the gadget he came up with 37 years ago. Morley Safer of 60 minutes reports in this 12 minute segment that aired on 5/23:

   http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6512514n&tag=contentMain;contentBody

   as an aside, my favorite (and spot-on, imho!) quote (or “Philosophical Belief” as it is referred to) of Marty (who i know as well as his wife Arlene Harris, the founder of http://www.jitterbug.com/ and http://www.greatcall.com/) is:

   “There is no lack of spectrum, only a lack of spectral efficiency.”

   some writings of Marty on this “Philosophical Belief”:

   The Myth of Spectrum Scarcity:
   Why Shuffling Existing Spectrum Among Users Will Not
   Solve America’s Wireless Broadband Challenge

   A Martin Cooper Position Paper [6 pages]

   http://www.dynallc.com/pdfs/themythofspectrumscarcity.pdf
   from http://www.dynallc.com/#/Martin_Cooper_Publications/

   also worthy of a look see/read are the various white papers, et al. over at Marty’s company, http://www.arraycomm.com/ — the world leader in multi-antenna signal processing (MAS). Their A-MAS™ software is running in more than 300,000 base stations today, in 17 countries, with client device solutions on the way. They improve wireless subscriber experiences and radio network economics through gains in coverage, client data rates, and capacity — in WiMAX, GSM, PHS, and HC-SDMA systems. …

   Martin Cooper:
   Cell Phone ‘Father’ Squeezes Spectrum
   By Bruce Christian
   http://www.phoneplusmag.com/articles/111feat1.html

   and

   There is no scarcity of spectrum today—there never has been a shortage
   of radio frequency spectrum—and there never need be.

   Personal communications and spectrum policy for
   the 21st century
   Martin Cooper
   Presented at the George Mason University
   Wednesday, February 21, 2007
   http://www.iep.gmu.edu/documents/MartinCooper.pdf

   ———-

   with respect to where its all “going” — be sure to watch this brief clip –
   if not the entire movie — The President’s Analyst ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062153/ )
   on “The Cerebrum Communicator” at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUa3np4CKC4
   (this what Marty colloquially refers to as SAM in his 60 minutes interview)

2. JustinTheSkeptic Says:
   June 27th, 2010 at 1:56 am

   “Personalized Greetings” yet less personal…

3. How the Common Man Sees It Says:
   June 27th, 2010 at 7:25 am

   @Justin

   That is a bit of an oxymoron isn’t it?

4. alfred e Says:
   June 27th, 2010 at 12:27 pm

   To second the implications of the some of the earlier quotes, the big carriers (Bell Heads) have resisted the introduction of new technology decades if it threatened their monopoly position. Control freaks. The main battlefront was smart terminals. D not give control to them; they’ll “harm the network”.

   Finally, the tables have been turned and they are having to scramble to find the latest and greatest smart phone technology.

   But they still have too much control over spectrum, policy and pricing. They own the infrastructure.

   The current battleground is net neutrality.

   We’ll see how the BSO corporatocrats play this one out.