Transhumanism is a social, technological, political, and philosophical movement that advocates the transformation of human nature by means of pharmacology, genetic manipulation, cybernetic modification, nanotechnology, and a host of other technologies. The aim of this movement is to increase physical and sensory abilities, augment intelligence and memory, and extend lifespan. After providing so...

Due to the scale and complexity of current Internet, how to protect the existing investment and reduce the negative influence to users and service providers during the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 is a very important research topic for the future Internet. This paper summarizes and compares translation methods, tunneling methods, IPv6 transition scenarios, and IPv6 transition security problems;...

In comparison to many artifacts of computing, the Internet has lived to an old age—it is over 35 years old. Opinions differ as to the extent that it is showing its age, and among some researchers, there is a hypothesis that the Internet of 15 years from now might be built on different principles. Whether the network of 15 years from now is a minor evolution from today’s network, or a more radic...

Network virtualization is recognized as an enabling technology for the Future Internet. Applying virtualization of network resources leads to the problem of mapping virtual resources to physical resources, known as “Virtual Network Embedding” (VNE). Several algorithms attempting to solve this problem have been discussed in the literature, so far. However, comparison of VNE algorithms is hard, a...

Economics has been defined as the science of allocation of scarce resources towards alternative ends. This definition implies that the first step in economic analysis is to determine what ends are desirable for society. Most sectors of the society would agree that sustainability is a desirable end, but there is little agreement as to what a sustainable future would look like. The University of ...

This paper investigates the logic of Ockhamism, a view according to which future contingents are either true or false. Several attempts have been made to give rigorous shape to this view by defining a suitable formal semantics, but arguably none of them is fully satisfactory. The paper draws attention to some problems that beset such attempts, and suggests that these problems are different symp...

We discuss the aspect of measurement period length in the detection of dynamic application profiles in the future Internet solutions requiring automatic network based traffic differentiation. We base the analysis on a measurement-based method to form dynamic application profiles and observe the effect of the measurement period to the quantity and quality on the dynamic application profile. We s...

We offer an initial exploration of the architectural constructs required to support selective connectivity, whereby a host can choose the degree to which it maintains a network presence, rather than today’s binary notion of “connected” or “disconnected”. The driver for our thinking is to allow hosts to go to sleep to Proposed architectural elements We can view end systems as having three basic ...