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Personal Computing and Communication (PCC)

Upper limit of bandwidth: saturate the senses: sight, sound, touch, smell, taste = ~1 Gbit/sec/user

Current workstations shipping with 1 Gbit/sec interfaces for LAN!

Telepresense for work is the long-term "killer" application [4]

-- Gordon Bell and James N. Gray

Location and Context Aware ==> Smart Badge [an IP device]

Audio in/out, light level, temperature, humidity, orientation, ...


[4] "The Revolution Yet to Happen" in Beyond Calculation: The Next Fifty Years of Computing, Eds. Denning and Metcalfe, Copernicus, 1997.