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The PET Project
Let alone GB, TB-scale super broadband network will be available in the very near future. Well, what are we supposed to do with it?
An easy answer for this question is, such as, a streaming broadcast which make it possible to make your own TV program on demand.
Is that enough? Definitely no. With today's innovative development of semiconductor and photonic technology, performance of the computer and the network is above our anticipations. One of the most important problem for us is, however, how to deal with this overabundant resources.
Suppose you have 500 on demand TV channels, who has the contents? It will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to create a program which people think interesting.
So, the indispensable key to our goal is to find totally new traffic source, or to research on a new way of the content creation. One possible solution may be constructing a huge realtime control system with sensors; various sources keeps submitting their data, so the users choose and take advantages of them.
As a result, you can get a worldwide information, literally in your hand. The feature of this project is:
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ervasive:
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Information is reachable from anywhere to anywhere, whenever you want.
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mbedded:
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Always-on the Internet, besides, every object is connected to the network.
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ternal:
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Not a single day is out of service; you don't need to care about when it's unavailable.
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ransparent:
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It's just like the ubiquitous air. As you know with the case of mobile phones, Japan is the No. 1 country when it comes to new community. Why not constructing another splendid community?
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As we see above,
you can submit or get various information via the Internet from anywhere to anywhere, whenever you want.
This is what we call the Pet project. Now, let's see how it will be going.
(1) Dokodemo Door
If you put 50 video cameras in your room, there will be no hidden place and you can see everywhere on the monitor. Like this idea, putting hundreds of video cameras at the places of natural beauty or historical interest makes it possible to space-time travel in your house.
(2) Global Book
Web is a convenient tool. But it is not suitable for reading. Books have been the most friendly intellectual architecture to us, since very old times. So what about making the web into the book-shape? Publish your own book, which contents changes dynamically to the latest information.
(3) Touch it together!
Do you remember the time you knead clay with friends when you were a child? Though, these friends may have been moved to all over the world. It will be pretty nice if we can touch and transform something over the space and time. If this comes true, the idea of co-designing will change drastically.
(4) Dynamic Web Space
Search robots crawl and get information on the web, and then construct a search engine DB. However, as the network grows, we can take the whole of it as a gigantic distributed computer, and more dynamic web space can be constructed. For instance, as soon as something important is updated, it will be notified to someone who is interested in this information.
(5) Attachable Chip
How about an attachable OS client which is 8KB and has ten thousand gates at most? Put this on and everything could be a network terminal.
(6) Other
If you have any ideas about over space-time, make it come true! So we can realize the common space of information and processing and knowledge.
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