FUTURE WIRELESS practical.discourse.creative/ Science Museum, London, 4 Oct 05

CYBERSALON @ THE SCIENCE MUSEUM'S DANA CENTRE
Tuesday, 4th October 2005, 11am-10pm
The Science Museum's Dana Centre, 165 Queen's Gate, South Kensington, London SW7 5HE

Future Wireless conference - a day of presentation, demonstration, practical workshop, artistic intervention and debate to demonstrate and probe the nature, impact and potential of the wireless Internet, mobile telecommunications and other radio-based technologies. Future Wireless is the lastest in a series of collaborative events with Open Spectrum UK, a coalition of non-profit organisations engaged in community wireless networking and the advocacy of licence-exempt access to radio spectrum - as part of NODE.London's Autumn '05 season

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+ Event outline

Cybersalon scans the horizon of wireless communications and explores its emerging landscape and ecology to present an investigation into Future Wireless.

Through three parallel strands of programming – practical, discourse and creative – Cybersalon hosts a day of presentation, demonstration, practical workshop, artistic intervention and debate to demonstrate and probe the nature, impact and potential of the wireless Internet, mobile telecommunications and other radio-based technologies.

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Triggers for Discussion

The following questions provide some initial triggers:

* The Cybernetic wireless dream? How are wireless technologies changing our personal and social spaces – or how are our personal and social spaces shaping wireless technologies?

* Wireless utopia or dystopia? Has wireless technology liberated communication or revealed a darker, more dysfunctional side to our natures?

* Broadcast or “narrowcast”? Are we moving towards a telco-centric or a user-centric world of mobile wireless communications? Can we realise the promise of the Internet as the great agora - the conversation of the many-to-many – and create an open future of decentralized communication systems and user-generated content?

* Broadband - DIFM or DIY? (do-it-for-me or do-it-yourself?) Why should you build your own free wireless network and how do you do it?

* The Invisible Wealth of Nations? Should the radio spectrum be seen as a “market commodity” or a “national resource” and what is the future of wireless communications and the strategic prospects for utilising the radio spectrum?

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