Chaim Yudkowsky, CPA, CITP, CGMA - Byte of Success Delivered in 1998 at an event in rural Kentucky with many dignitaries including Commissioner Furchgott-Roth of the FCC at the time.

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Telecommunications:
The Impetus for Change

3. Quiz
• In what year was the Ma Bell divestiture?
– 1978
• In what year was the first IBM PC
introduced?
– 1980
• In what year did MTV debut?
– 1980

4. Quiz
• When did fax become small, phone-based,
and affordable?
– early 1980s
• In what year was the first commercial
cellular phone system introduced?
– 1983 in Chicago
• In what year was the World Wide Web
introduced?
– 1988 / 1990

5. What we will discuss
• Internet impact
• VPN
• Telecommuting
• Videoconferencing

6. The convergence of technologies
• WebTV
• Internet telephony
• Computer telephony integration (CTI)
• Smart house and home entertainment center
• The Palm Pilot
• By 2003, less than 10 percent of traffic will
be voice!

7. Trend
A Formal Apology
Since inventing cellular and after introducing
digital wireless, wireless office systems and
cordless phones, anyone can get a hold of
you no matter where you are.
Sorry.
Lucent Technology Ad

9. Trend
• Worldcom & MCI / Qwest & LCI
• Local phone competition
• Cable competition
• Satellite saturation
– 1999 low-earth orbit satellites
• Miniaturization and portability
• Toll-free numbers
• Number transportability / Avirnex

10. Trend
• 50% shortage of skilled, trained personnel
• 350,000 vacant IT jobs nationwide
• U.S. economy needs more than 1.3 million
new high tech workers over next 10 years
• University of Phoenix
• MD State Technology Scholarship
• Execs still like face-to-face meetings most
(44%); second is e-mail (34%); voice mail
only 7%

11. Challenges
• Shortage of the technology worker
• Reaching out to children to be challenged
• Keeping the innovations coming
• Bringing the benefits of these technologies
to inner city and rural communities
• Corporations drawn to wired and employee
saturated communities

13. The Internet
• Changing how we communicate
• Changing how we see the world and how
the world sees us
• Examples
– E-commerce
– Chat
– Activism and politics
– Education

14. “The average U.S. multinational
with 100 remote users can save
up to $1.8 million dollars over
five years by using the Internet in
lieu of traditional dial-up remote
access.”

15. VPNs - Part 1
• What are they?
– Virtual Private Network
– Railways vs. Roadways
– Using the Internet and private networks
• How do they work?
• Standardization - protocols
– PPTP, IPsec, etc.
– Winterm / Winframe

16. VPNs - Part 2
• Impact in business and education
– Telecommuting
– Rural access
– International access
– New institutional models for resources
• Issues in VPNs

17. Telecommuting - Part 1
• What is it?
– Increase productivity
– More focus on what is performed not where
– The virtual organization
• How are some of these technologies
changing it?
– Working from the beach
– Interactivity from a distance
– Wired places to live or stay

18. Technology making
telecommuting possible
• PC
• Fax
• Multi-function devices
• Cell phone
• Internet / VPN / intranet
• Videoconferencing

19. Telecommuting - Part 2
• Impact to economic development
– Rural areas
– Environmental
– Infrastructure
– Life style issues

20. Telecommuting - Part 3
• Impact to business and education
– Work space shrinkage (25% to 50% over 10
years)
– Offering alternatives
– Setting up programs
– Workforce development

21. Videoconferencing - Part 1
• Benefits and reasons for adoption
– Cost of business travel
– Increase productivity
– Instant meetings
– Breaking down the distance barrier
– Interview remotely
• Business or university

22. Videoconferencing - Part 2
• Distance learning
– What is it?
– How does it work?
– Offering comprehensive training
• Changing the adult education model
– Aristotle vs. 3M U.
– Old economy vs. new economy
– Mass produced learning vs. natural learning

23. Conclusion
Knowledge is Power
Francis Bacon 1597

24. How are you changing for the
future?