Marko Ahtisaari of Nokia (the Insight & Foresight Unit) points to the social implications of wirelessness.

John Chapin of Vanu builds generic devices that can receive and transmit wireless signals based on how they’re programmed. Among other things, that means that a single device can be your radio and your garage-door opener. Or your phone can download the European GSM software so it will work when you travel. You also get much better usage of spectrum through dynamic allocation. But flexible RD hardware is expensive.

Tren Griffin of Microisoft: “Wireless mesh is a major area of research at Microsoft Research.” Why? Because they believe in empowering the edge.

[I conked out. Sorry. Up too early to get here on time. There is a list of live blogs here.]

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