New Frontiers for the Information Society:

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The British Council TISA 2 Berlin, 8-9 march 2002
New Frontiers for the Information Society The
Ambient Intelligence Perspective by Angelo
Airaghi
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INFORMATION SOCIETY

• The single largest market in the world
• turnover Euro 2000 Bn (EU)
• more than 12 million people (EU)
• growth rate 10 average

but we are only at the beginning of the
revolution!
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RECENT TRENDS

• Internet as a paradigm
• Need of new language
• Increasingly visible technology

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TOWARDS MATURITY?

• Disappearing technology
• Return to a more natural language

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THE EUROPEAN LONG TERM STRATEGY

• Centered around the person (instead the
  organization)
• No entry barriers
• The net as a key pillar

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THE VISION
Ambient Intelligence, for seamless (and secure)
delivery of services and applications (in Europe)
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AN EVOLUTION TOWARDS AN ALL INCLUSIVE KNOWLEDGE
SOCIETY

• IST today
• PC based
• Driven by professional use .
• Keyboard and screen
• Writing and reading ..
• Low bandwidth .
• Mobile telephony (voice)
• e-Services are just emerging .
• Steep usage learning curve
• World based information search
• Low level utilisation of possibilities .
• Only 5 of global population on-line ..

• Ambient Intelligence tomorrow
• Our surrounding is the interface
• Personalised and for all users
• Technology is almost invisible
• Use all senses, intuitive
• Infinite bandwidth and performance
• Mobile/Wireless full multimedia
• Wide adoption of e-health, e-learing
• Laid-back mode of interaction
• Context-based knowledge handling
• Take full advantage of potential
• gt70 of world wide population on line

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IMPLEMENTATION OF AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE

• Progressive start from 2004-2005
• Time to maturity 10-15 years
• Comparison 40-60 years for hard
  technologies
• Impact based on new-services
• Self learning systems

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THE NEXT STEPS

• Strong AmI orientation of EU FP6
• UMTS (3G) as the first glimpse
• Threat the slowdown of investments in
  innovative service development

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INCLUSION/EXCLUSION

• No barriers (I/O in natural language and
  images)
• Inclusion only based on cost of
  services
• The real challenge free of charge
  (Murphys law?)