lifted by the cloud
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Lifted by the Cloud is a vision of cloud-based accessibility presentation by Wayne Caswell as part of a contest sponsored by the FCC, the Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities, and Raising the Floor. It’s based on the author’s 2006 presentation on BIG Broadband and Gigabit-to-the-Home.TRANSCRIPT
Lifted by the CloudA vision of Cloud-based AccessibilityBased on “BIG Broadband and Gigabit-to-the-Home “
This shortened and narrated presentation by Wayne Caswell was submitted as part of a contest sponsored by the Federal
Communications Commission, the Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities, and Raising the Floor. It’s based on the author’s 2006
presentation on BIG Broadband and Gigabit-to-the-Home.
TelepresenceFor Work, Families & Healthcare
Video conferencing is a great way to keep in touch with office workers on one hand and grandchildren, elderly parents, or caregivers on the other. The technology is available today and rapidly improving as networks get faster.
iChat with
Wayne
TeleworkWorking from Home or on the Go
When telepresence is part of a Telework program, employers can hire the best candidates without uprooting them and their family, and unemployed or
mobility limited knowledge workers can seek new employment anywhere.
Telemedicinea Solution to Rising Healthcare Costs
Healthcare costs are rising faster than inflation and will get worse as baby boomers retire unless something drastic is done with
telemedicine. Telepresence, for example, gives someone with limited mobility or in a remote region access to big city medical services.
Distance Learningfor Keeping Up with Technology
Cloud computing can help reform the education system, from pre-K through college and life-long learning. Kids can learn at their own pace, and adults can develop skills for new job opportunities while still working at the old
job. Course material materials can be adapted for special needs.
L EARN
to EARN
Collaborationworking together to
achieve common goals
Sharing documents with team members through email is so… old school. It’s also less secure than collaborating online and working from the same master copy. That vision
is real today with Google Apps, a collection of cloud-based applications.
Universal DesignSmarter Products for everyone,
regardless of Age, Ability or Statuswith Intelligence in the Cloud
Products designed for niche markets almost always cost more than mass market products, because development serves fewer customers.
So it makes more sense to design products for everyone universally and incorporate different user interfaces for different needs.
Smarter Products
Smarter Homes
Parallel ProcessingIdle PCs with Supercomputer Power
Consumers share their otherwise-idle PCs across high-speed networks to enable a World Community Grid. Parallel processing is then used to split complex tasks into small pieces that can be processed simultaneously on
thousands of personal computers to address complex applications