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Mozilla Festival proposals for 2016
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The Treasure Bands #399

Open mozfest-bot opened 8 years ago

mozfest-bot commented 8 years ago

[ ID ] c8a89fe0-51b3-4368-b47c-abd4e345e49e

[ Submitter's Name ] Henrik van Leeuwen

[ Space ] exhibit [ Secondary Space ] digital

[ Exhibit Method ] Installation piece (screens and open source hardware) [ Exhibit Link ] http://www.vanleeuwenbrothers.com/treasurebands.pdf

Description

With the introduction of 5G, flat fee mobile data subscriptions and global satellite, weather balloon and drones based internet access the number of access points to the internet seems to be diminishing. Multinationals such as AT&T, Vodafone, but also Google and Facebook are investing heavily in ways to be the only global (wireless) access point to the internet. Wireless frequencies are becoming the new 'oil' of our connected world. Multinationals are in bidding wars to get the most valuable frequencies. Nation states auction off their frequencies to the highest bidder. These frequencies are milk cows for states. But in the end the people pay for using these frequencies. Radio frequencies are from the people and should not be used as chickens that lay golden eggs. In Treasure Bands we real-time show the hidden world of the most valuable radio frequencies in the direct environment via an interactive screen-based installation.

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hvanleeuwen commented 8 years ago

New discription:

With the introduction of 5G, flat fee mobile data subscriptions and global satellite, weather balloon and drones based internet access the number of access points to the internet actually seems to be diminishing. Multinationals such as AT&T, Vodafone, but also Google and Facebook are investing heavily in ways to be the only global (wireless) access point to the internet. Wireless frequencies are becoming the new 'oil' of our connected world. Multinationals are in bidding wars to get the most valuable frequencies. Nation states auction off their frequencies to the highest bidder. These frequencies are milk cows for states. But in the end the people pay for using these frequencies. Radio frequencies are from the people and should not be used as chickens that lay golden eggs. In Treasure Bands the hidden world of the most valuable radio frequencies is shown via an interactive screen-based installation.