From: Brian Atkins (brian@posthuman.com)
Date: Mon Sep 04 2000 - 13:35:46 MDT
Emlyn O'Regan wrote:
>
> I'd lean toward the name "teleoperative", which connotes a professional,
> rather than a mindless slave. There'd need to be a code of ethics, similar
> to that of interpreters, of impartially handling interaction for the
> teleoperator, of confidentiality, all that stuff. For some tasks, you might
> get right down to the job of directing the teleoperator; maybe through a
> heads-up displayed arrow, which tells them which way to turn their head,
> maybe the buzzing mentioned below, whatever.
Perhaps.. I think you might end up with different classes here- kinda
like the difference between an executive personal assistant and a temp
who only works for you for one day or a week. An executive in a company
might have a dedicated teleoperative they could send out on things that
were confidential. But for other things you might go with a cheaper temp
if that's all you needed.
>
> I'm interested in the state of wireless comms in the US, mainly. What's an
> affordable data rate (say using cellular networks), and what are the charges
> like? How about if money was no object; what kind of bandwidth could we put
> between a teleoperator on one side of the world, and a teleoperative on the
> other?
>
Depends on location- inside an office building or campus you can get 10mbit
wireless. This would have to be provided by the company or location the
teleoperative is visiting. If they are out wandering around a location
without that capability you have to fall back to either cellular, CDPD, or at
most the 128kbit packet service of Metricom in a few cities. Don't expect
usable video streaming for probably another 3 years.
However if the teleoperative stored the video onto tape, they could send
the high quality video to you to look over later when they get back to their
HQ.
-- Brian Atkins Director, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence http://www.singinst.org/
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