A short compilation of highlights from the New America Foundation's May 22 event with Google Co-founder and President Larry Page.
For more details and the full event video: http://www.newamerica.n...
A short compilation of highlights from the New America Foundation's May 22 event with Google Co-founder and President Larry Page.
Like to rate videos and let people know what you think?
Automatically share your ratings, favorites, and more on Facebook, Twitter, and Google Reader with YouTube Autoshare.
Autoshare makes certain YouTube activities public on the services you choose. Select only the services you are comfortable with - like Facebook, Twitter, or Google Reader - to let your friends know what you like on YouTube. You can turn Autoshare off at any time.
Like to share videos with friends?
Automatically share your ratings, favorites, and more on Facebook, Twitter, and Google Reader with YouTube Autoshare.
Autoshare makes certain YouTube activities public on the services you choose. Select only the services you are comfortable with - like Facebook, Twitter, or Google Reader - to let your friends know what you like on YouTube. You can turn Autoshare off at any time.
Irony alert!! In this interview Page is using a wireless microphone. Google claims that these are operating illegally, and if Google wins it and millions like it will be in landfills because they won't work because of interference from all the Google white space devices.
Google basically lost the FCC airwave auction and wants other airwaves for free. The free the airwaves movement basically wants to control of the airwaves that are presently used for radio microphones. Most people may not realize the importance of this spectrum, but enjoy the benefits of it every day. Motion pictures, TV, concerts, broadway type shows & church services use radio microphones. Without the benefit of these microphones the sound quality of these could go down the tubes.
Mobile personal devices are so different than TV broadcasters, a comparison is difficult. To begin with, the broadcasters are licensed and regulated with fixed frequencies, the mobile devices are to be designed to find an unused channel, likely unlicensed.
Secondly, in TV, the transmitter is at the top of a tower. A mobile device (obviously) moves around in location, with flexible frequency; the personal device is a TRANSMITTER. This makes interference so much more likely and unpredictable.
For years the music industry has used this band for wireless microphones,and has co-existed with the television industry. now big money wants to cripple the music industry taking up all of this freq. spectrum for the use of wifi, with absolutely no mention to us it will render all the equip in our industry useless, funny how they forgot to mention that, think about that the next time you see a concert, broadway show, symphony performance, or even a newscaster that is wearing a wirless lapel mic.
Larry Page is trying to convince us to support a drive to push congress to open up the spectrum around 700 MHz for internet access. The rationale is not yet clear. Larry tries to inform us, knowing the technology, but his presentation is incomplete. His reasoning may be sound but how can we be sure? WE NEED to know more about the technology. We need to know the spectrum's frequency range. And to know the odds of devices severely malfunctioning in that rage.
The rationale is perfectly clear: to make the internet more widely available. How is that not clear? "And to know the odds of devices severely malfunctioning in that range"? What are you talking about? Why would the range make devices more likely to malfunction? TVs have been doing fine in that range for decades.
How does the proposal for new spectrum make "the internet" more WIDELY available? These devices would communicate through terrestrial radio towers, not satellites. Where are the towers going that cell phone (internet access) doesn't exist already?
Autoshare makes certain YouTube activities public on the services you choose. Select only the services you are comfortable with - like Facebook, Twitter, or Google Reader - to let your friends know what you like on YouTube. You can turn Autoshare off at any time.
Secondly, in TV, the transmitter is at the top of a tower. A mobile device (obviously) moves around in location, with flexible frequency; the personal device is a TRANSMITTER. This makes interference so much more likely and unpredictable.