Towards a Model of Seamless Mobility - User Value and Security in Computing, Content, and Communications

Seamless mobility is a term that encompasses a broad range of technologies and applications. It builds on technology developments in the wireless industry over the last 20 years, starting with mobile telephony, on through mobile IP, convergence of voice and data, and now towards an ever-increasing rate of convergence/collision between the worlds of secure communication, content, and computing. It is well accepted that in each of these domains, that there is exponential growth in capabilities, with a doubling of capabilities in communication technologies every 9 months, in memory technology (storage/content) every 12 months, and in computing technologies (processing) every 18 months. These fundamental increases in the underlying technologies bring increasing value to users in each of these domains. And as Ray Kurzweil makes the case in the “Law of Accelerating Returns” (http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0134.html), these rates are really growing as a double exponential when measured over longer intervals – i.e. the doubling times are reducing over time.