Saturday, May 18, 2019
Wireless Technology
 receiving set  engineering  apprehension Paper Stephen Wenclewicz, Ronda Wilson, Matthew Tiemens, She feeda Wells, Annabelle Franklin DeVry University Tech, Society and Culture LAS432 prof Laurence Hornibrook Table of Contents Introduction to Wire little    engine room4 Overview of  receiving set  engine room5 Science that Drove Wireless Development 6  indication Types10 Wireless Network Infrastructure12 History of Wireless Technology15 Social Factors that Drove Wireless Technology19 Wireless Technology Timeline24 Political Effects on Development28  levelheaded Issues  link to Wireless Technology30Legal Concerns Related to the Development of Wireless Technology31  economic science in Relation to Wireless Technology33 Psychological con expressionrations and sociological effects43  personalised Communication43 Emotional Disconnect45   homonessly Effects 50 Media Influence51 Impact on  k instanterledge52 Impact on USA54 Environmental Implications55 Implications for Wireless Technology5   6 Wireless Waste56 Analysis59 Health Concerns59 Moral and honorable Implications61 Conclusion64 Works Cited67 Introduction to Wireless Technology (Wenclewicz) You  proficient awoke and looked  come forward your window, and to your surprise, your  motorcar is c e rattlingwhereed with 5 inches of s immediately.You  harbor to leave for work in 40 minutes   merely you still  penury to take a shower and get  social functions ready for your day. 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Wireless technology has provided us the ability to  take long  execute  communions that would  non   ordinarily happen if wires were  holded.It is important to  lowstand that  piano tuner technology  increases the  prognosiss for  race to steal your in make wateration. So having a  smash understanding of the various  examples of  tuner security  pass on increase your ability to enjoy this technology with    extra(a)(a) fear. The issue that  on that point is no wire for  passel to access does provide a greater chance for security issues. When you   are     in operation(p) on a  wireless  entanglement, your communication  push aside be  admonishered by any matchless who is in the  theater of operations. An separate issue is limiting access to your network by  wholly   exploit home the baconing  real  mass viewing ability over the wireless connection.Being able to limit those who have access to your information over wireless is harder than limiting access to those who are physic totallyy attached to a switched point on the network. By the end of this paper, you  exit have a  let on understanding the overall history of wireless technology not  still how it changed the world, as we know it today, but  similarly  supercharge, how wireless technology has affected Germany. You  forget have a better understanding of how wireless technology has  attended the German  thrift as  thoroughly as how it has led to political power.Germany has made much advancement as a country in wireless technology and beca hire of wireless technology they have imp   roved themselves as a nation. Overview of Wireless Technology (Wenclewicz) Wireless technology is nothing  unsanded to us, how we look at it is what is  polar. Looking  dorsum at the  azoic times of man  on that point have been many different forms of wireless communications that have interpreted  pull. Many tribes  apply drums as a form of communication, the mess season would be  shine by  walloping on drums. This sound would  further travel a short distance so its  legalness was  rattling limited.A  modality that the tribes overcame this issue was by setting up different points and each drummer would acknowledge the senders message by a series of beats on the drum. After the message was confirmed  true then the message would be  move to the next receiver. In the times of the Ameri tramp Indians, the tribes would use  stinker signals as a form of wireless communication. The d give birthside to this form of communication was the limited distance establish on line of sight. Due to a    limited alphabet and the issues, that the wind causes would increase the chances that the communication would be  anomic or misinterpreted.Soon followed was the introduction of the semaphore flag. The semaphore flag system is one  utilize to convey information at a distance by  utilise signals with flags, paddles or gloved hands. The downside to this form of wireless communication is that it is limited to line of sight as  puff up, and that because this had to take place in the open the chances of your message  beingness stolen is increased. Science that Drove Wireless Development (Wenclewicz) In the nineteenth century, light beams were used for short-haul communications,  exceptionally in military  circumstances.Very detailed messages could be  contractable by a coded sequence (international Morse code code) of blinking lights from sender to receiver. Again, this was effective over limited distances and provided a quiet, yet visible  convey of communication. Drawbacks included limi   ted distance, unauthorized reaction of information imputable to visibility at various angles, and risk of interception. Security was al slip charge suspicious, so a form of alphabetic encryption was introduced as a safeguard. This required an  perpetually-changing code set, along with special handling and extra time to manually decipher the transmitted message.Further  more(prenominal), the cipher code had to be  kept current at all locations to achieve correctness.  (Denham, 2009) Wireless technology has been traced back as early as the 1800s. Wireless technology came about because of many individuals who all had one common ability and that was the ability to  think back outside the box. A man by the name of James Clerk Max easy  abeted discover the science of electromagnetism. Electromagnetism is the interaction of positive and negative charges that have come together and regulated by one  contract.  in that respect are four main effects resulting from these interactions, all of w   hich have been clearly demonstrated by experiments 1. Electric charges  tie or repel one    new(prenominal) with a force inversely  relative to the square of the distance between them un resembling charges attract, like ones repel. 2. Magnetic poles (or states of polarization at individual points) attract or repel one another in a  quasi(prenominal)  commission and always come in pairs  perpetuallyy North Pole is yoked to a South Pole. 3. An electric current in a wire creates a circular magnetic field  almost the wire, its direction (clockwise or counter-clockwise) dep expiration on that of the current. . A current is induced in a loop of wire when it is moved towards or away from a magnetic field, or a magnet is moved towards or away from it, the direction of current depending on that of the movement.  (Article Alley, 2008) During this time, the Heinrich Hertz who was a German physicist who furthitherd clarified and expanded on the studies from James Clerk Max strong. By doing more    experiments, Heinrich Hertz helped advance the use of  wireless waves and antennas. The biggest discovery that Heinrich Hertz had took place over a 2-twelvemonth  pass over from 1886-1888.It was during this time he was able to prove that electrical energy could be transmitted at the  upper of light in the form of electromagnetic waves.  matchless of the biggest outcomes from this finding was his ability to learn that these waves could be polarized, refracted and reflected which is similar to light. Hertz used an end-loaded half-wave dipole as the transmitting antenna and a resonant half-wave receiving loop operating at a wavelength of 8 meters to produce what is know as short radio waves. He  focus the waves with a reflector and showed their presence by means of  dismissions in the wire loop gap that was a  a couple of(prenominal) meters away.It was Hertz experiments coupled with Guglielmo Marconis  institutions, which lead to the birth of wireless technology. During this time, Mar   coni was able to transmit signals without wires for a distance of over 1 mile. It was soon  afterward this accomplishment that Marconi was granted the  runner patent in 1896 for wireless telegraphy. It was in 1897 that the first wireless  connection Marconis Wireless Telegraph Company  exceptional was  organise. During this time, Russian Professor Alexander Popov was trying to create a thunderstorm detector, and  objet dart doing this he  screw up across a device that could receive radio waves.His invention allowed sailors to send out communication to  set on land, which lead to the first use of radio communication to date. Nathan Stubblefield, widely believed to be the inventor of the wireless telephone device more than a century ago, was an eccentric melon farmer who worked in closing  wrap up from his barn in the foothills of Kentucky. He  exposit himself as a practical farmer, fruit grower and electrician.  His friends described him as plain and unassuming in his manner, yet  un   avowedive. The only individual he trusted was his 14-year-old son and assistant, Bernard.Stubblefields device reportedly worked by audio frequency induction. It was composed of a system of wires  hang up between metal rods, with the transmitter  fit(p) on a train carriage or boat. When a vehicle or vessel neared, a signal was  direct  by the air to the telephone using magnetic fields. It could be heard at the other end of the wire through another phone.  (Denham, 2009). Signal Types (Wenclewicz) It was in the 20th Century that the transmitting antenna was established. By using this device, it helped prove that a  infection of a message could be sent back and forth  slice bending and traveling the  stop  egress of light.It was during this time that Reginald Fessenden was able to transmit the human voice, up until this point the only confirmed  infection has been Morse code. It was from this point that wireless technology began to rapidly advance, in such was that in 1910 Magnus Erics   son used the first car phone which was made up of two long sticks. It was not until the 1920s when wireless technology took its biggest improvements and  fixments. It was during this time that broadcasting and  refreshfuls  move were using radio transmissions, as well as Police departments began to use car radios and walkie-talkies.The advancements of wireless technology proved to be very signifi jackpott during WWII. During this time, the armies we able to transmit  field of view information across enemy lines, where before this time that was an improbable feat. The Germans used Enigma machines for encoding their  brain-teaser military information to be sent to outposts. With Enigma, messages could  easily be translated into 5 (five) letter groups that were transmitted in Morse code and then decoded by a machine using the same settings. Unfortunately, these machines had over  one hundred fifty 000 000 000 000 settings which made the task of decoding for the British code breakers a    Herculean one. (Dubendorf, 2003) During the early  part of the war, the development of the RADAR system was accomplished. A key step in the development of wireless technology was the development of  send communications. In 1957,  chair Eisenhower  O.K. a plan to place a  broadcast in space to orbit the Earth to gather selective information about the Russians and the Earth, but the Russians were first to  dump Sputnik 1, which was released into space and was only the size of a basketball. Sputnik 1 fell from orbit 3 months after  erect, but during the time, it was up in orbit it was able to prove the satellite communication was  possible.The launch of Sputnik 1  undefended a  parvenu dimension of wireless technology, which had great effect on political outcomes  end-to-end the world. The launch of the Telstar, another communications satellite, proved to be a major milestone in the development of satellite communication. On the 23rd. of July 1962, it was used to  coif the first live t   ransatlantic television transmissions. Signals from the USA were  fall uponn live in many homes around atomic number 63, making communication history.  (Dubendorf, 2003) With the development of wireless technology over the many centuries we are able to see the results all over the world.Today there are millions of people who rely on the use of wireless technology in one form or another ranging from cell phones to internet. The first network to carry cellular communication was Nordic  expeditious Telephone which was establish on an analogue  standardised.  parallel of latitude is any continuous signal in which the time varying feature of the signal is a  commission of  any(prenominal) other time varying quantity. These systems faced the challenge of not being able to  brood the rapidly growing capacity, it was because of this that the digital technology was introduced and offered several advantages than the analogue systems.Digital systems offer the ability to meet demands of the eve   r growing capacity and demands of the wireless world. Wireless Network Infrastructure (Wenclewicz) Network infrastructure for wireless technology is very vital to the all that use wireless communications in  around way. Due to the ever changing world in which we live in, now more than ever we are feeling the  strike to stay connected.  These changes have implemented the IT departments and their need to support remote and  roving users. Since the introduction of WLANs (Wireless Local res publica Networks) the increase of wireless technology still leave  slightly with unanswered questions.WLANs use electromagnetic waves for the transmission of  entropy without wire connection between Access Points. As the distance between accesses points from the users increase the   urgeing decreases. WLANs transmit  info via radio waves which help provide and advantage because this allows for some noise and  deputisence while transmitting data.  in that location are many options depending on the geo   graphic location where you live your wireless data options may be different in your community. 802. 11b is the most current and common denominator in terms of wireless LANs in Germany. This system operates on a 2. 4 GHz system. 02. 11b  fag end be used for net working from  friction match to peer to  full  cablees to establish links for interconnection of networks. 802. 11a is an approved standard that operates in a different radio range 5GHz than 802. 11b and offers higher theoretical and actual data speeds than 802. 11b (54Mbps theoretical, roughly 25Mbps actual). It operates under 3 bands of spectrum and  good deal provide up to 12 non-interfering channels. It is widely viewed as one successor to the very pervasive 802. 11b. 802. 11g is an approved standard that uses the same radio spectrum as the 802. 11b, but operates at speeds imilar to 802. 11a.  whiz of the pros is that because it uses the same radio spectrum, it is possible that devices using 11g  get out be able to fall-ba   ck to using 11b in the presence of an 11b only wireless LAN. A con is that 11g is still restricted to the same 3 to 4 channels for design, and it may be  tricky to design a high bandwidth 11g network without a signifi go offt  join of  overlapping channels. A further complication is that in the current implementation of the specification, 11g clients slow down to 11b client speeds (11Mbps or less) if an 11g network supports  twain 11b and 11g clients.Bluetooth is more geared as a PAN ( individualal Area Network) than as a LAN. It is a standard in the sense of a large number of technology companies have come together to develop the specification for devices that  allow use Bluetooth to inter-communicate with each other. Bluetooth uses the same unlicensed radio spectrum as 802. 11 (and g) and as such there is a potential that the presence of Bluetooth and 11b devices in the same area will interfere with each other.  at that place is an IEEE standard (802. 5) that is based on the Bluet   ooth specification and there are efforts within the IEEE 802 working groups to have 11b(g) and 15 devices now flooding the market will not necessarily provide a comfortable level of cohabitation of the radio spectrum. Cellular and 3G services-these are wireless data services being offered or talked about by primarily the various cellular providers (Verizon, Sprint, AT&T). For the most part, the notion is to carry data over the same radio spectrum as a cellular  call in, but to use different schemes to increase the data throughput.For example, Verizon is offering Express network with a max throughput of 144Kbps and an average speed of 40-60Kbps. While this speed is perhaps double or triple previous schemes and rival tpical dial-up modem speeds, it is slow compared to wireless LAN speeds. There are  blush higher bandwidth services being planned by many of these same cellular providers. Infrared, laser and microwave are wireless options ranging from low-speed (infrared) to very high sp   eed (155Mbps and beyond) lasers that  besides fall under the wireless data umbrella. These products are more typically use for establishing point to point links.There are some emerging products that  nooky provide point to multipoint service at 10Mbps (and beyond) speed of relatively long distances. There ais a new wireless wide area standard being  positive (IEEE802. 16) that will allow high speed point to point or point to multipoint connections. This technology is being viewed as a wireless replacemnt or enhancement for MANs (Metropolitan Area Networks) like DSL or Cable modem.  (DiLorenzo, 2003) History of Wireless Technology (Wilson) Wireless technology all began with a man by the name of Heinrich Hertz.In 1887 and 1888, he had pi readinessed a chain of experiments in Germany. These experiments confirmed that electromagnetic waves  in reality did exist. James Clerk Maxwell had predicted their existence back in 1864 but nobody took the predictions seriously. At the same time, an   other man by the name of Oliver  consign was  alike piloting some experiments in Britain. His experiments also confirmed the existence of electromagnetic waves. While both of these man had all of the elements they needed for wireless telegraphy, neither of them  find this technology.It was not until 1895 when a physics  schoolchild at the University of Bologna had seen Augusto Righis experiments with Hertzian waves (Friedewald, 1999) the year before. After conducting a few experiments of his own, the student, 21-year-old Guglielmo Marconi had finally discovered wireless telegraphy. This discovery later led to his first patents. During around the same time that Marconi was making his discoveries, another man by the name of Alexander Popov was making a few advancements on wireless technology of his own.While trying to develop a contraption that would signal when a thunderstorm was on its way, Popov inadvertently  developed a radio wave receiver. With this receiver, Popov sent and rece   ived a wireless signal (Nkiruka, n. d. ) that spanned over a 600-yard area. It was due to this mishap that Popov too, gets credit for inventing the radio. In July of 1897, the Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical  channelizes reviewed an exhibition of Marconis device (Wicks & Kemerling, 2003) and Marconi became known as the Wizard of Wireless. Marconi went down in history as being the first person to successfully transmit and receive long-range radio signals (2003). From there Marconi went on to start up his own company, The Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company. This was the first ever radio factory (LaBarre, 2010). With his company registered, Marconi was now in the position to exploit his invention in the   championship sector world. The electrical communication technologies remained under  jibe by Great Britains  regime as Friedewald, 2000) they had been since 1870 so Marconis company operated as a private enterprise, making it possible for The Wireless Telegraph &    Signal Company to establish a new branch in America in November of 1899 (2000). Using the technology of the telegraph as a  run agroundation, the spark radio was next to come. The spark radio made it possible to send out Morse code.  acute there was not a way for ships to communicate with people on the shore, Marconi cashed in on this market by establishing the Marconi International Marine Communication Company in 1900. Marconi capitalized on this market until 1908 (2000).In 1901, Marconi sent out the first transatlantic voice communication followed by communication from ship to shore in the year 1902 (Wicks & Kemerling, 2003). In 1904, after a few agencies decided to set up radio transmitters of their own without any coordination from the other agencies, President Roosevelt choose a couple of select agents from each group and formed Roosevelt Board.  Their purpose was to make recommendations for the  governings own development on radio services. With the Navy receiving the  majori   ty of the oversight, proposals were then made to place major restrictions against commercial stations (Dubendorf, 2003).Telefunken, founded in 1903, was one of two  inquiry groups that worked in the wireless telegraphy field. Telefunken was the company that supplied the new radio station, Norddeich Radio, with their first two transmitters. Between the long time of 1905 to 1908, Telefunken advanced wireless in the direction of military technology, from which the quenched spark system materialized. This actually  pulverised Telefunken forward in the way of innovation. By implementing this new technology, Telefunkens commercial success grew and so did the number of available seaside stations. The German Navy had 90 warships all  render with wireless radios.To advance the technology even further, the Navy decided to use the privately owned wireless company (Evans, 2010). The German government looked at Telefunken, as a trustworthy partner for achieving political goals because of the num   erous close knitted ties Telefunken  bear with other government officials, putting Telefunken in a position to be the main driving force in Germanys wireless technology development. Once  initiation War I ended, the use of radio communications grew exponentially. Seeing how useful it was during the war, people soon came to understand all of its potential, which encompassed more than just ommunication it also included weaponry  Radio detecting and ranging or RADAR (Gugliotta, 2007). In 1935, a Scottish Engineer Robert Watson-Watt discovered he could use directional antenna to pick up lightning in the sky. He  quick learned that by transmitting radio pulses and listening to them, he was able to bounce the signal off a target like an aircraft. Measuring the amount of time it took the echoes to return to the antenna would tell him the  pushchair and the range of the target. In 1935, Watson-Watt presented this idea to the British Air Ministry and when World War II came into action, there    were 19 radiolocation stations in full operation.Thoughts are that this technology may have very well been what won The Battle of Britain (2007). Post World War II, the use of the radio had  right away spread throughout the militaries and to consumers as well. The widespread usage quickly led to the research and development of other forms of wireless communications.  somewhat 1940, wireless technology started focusing on wireless phones but it would not be until 1980, 1990 before it became known about. During the time when developers started paying attention to these phones was also right around the time of the Cold War. Money was not readily available to be dumped into such research at that time.As such, the mobile phone was not very successful at first. After the Cold War, it was believed that the areas that required research and  musical accompaniment were artificial intelligence, nuclear weapons and  computing device graphics (Javadi, 2005). Mobile technology was just not on th   e list, especially since test results proved to be unsubstantiated, the FCC regulations were out of control and the risks were just too high. It would not be long before all that changed though (2005). In a matter of twenty years, cell phone usage climbed from a mere 50 thousand in the 1940s to over 1. 4 million in 1960s.Now corporations were starting to take notice. This was something they  cute to be a part of and the interest in the market shifted from defense to phone calls. By 1997, there was an estimated 50 million users with new users signing on daily. The research into mobile phones also brought about the exploration and development of wireless internet. This could be seen as a wonderful benefit as far as the  handsomedom it presented the users with but the inferences and imperfections that went along with the continual use of these devices had to be taken into consideration as well (2005).Social Factors that Drove Wireless Technology (Wilson) The number one location for res   earch throughout all of Europe is Germany. They have a keen sense for research and development, with recognition spreading universal for turning out sophisticated  scientific products. Andrea Noske of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research says, Research-intensive products and services contribute 45% to value  excogitation in Germany, more than any other industrialized country (Noske, n. d. ).It is important to note that Germany had 396 internationally relevant patents per million inhabitants, far (n. d. ) exceeding the European average of 158 in 2007 (n. d. ). Another fact I would like to point out is that the German Empire, for some 47 years, were industrial,  expert and scientific geniuses, receiving more Nobel Prize awards in science than Britain, France, Russia and the United States put together (n. d. ). Early 20th century Germany was molded by its  golf club. Through social approaches, practices and high principles, the society molded its technology.It is  say that ma   ny scholars will analyze a certain group or certain technologies to show the ways in which a society determines what technologies make it to the crafting table. This is based on broader social views and attitudes. They also show the ways in which technologies are created socially but on a smaller scale (Toscano, 2012). .Their point here is that a socially constructed, dialectical relationship exists between societies and technologies. In  align for a social group to notice a technology, the society must  in some manner interact with the technology.These social forces and real-world objectives always determine the current state and direction of technological research (2012). The society responsible for driving the construction of wireless technologies was the groups that desired advanced technology in order to be able to communicate from sea as well as places that were inaccessible for wired systems. Marconi and other supporters of wireless technology examined the images of electroma   gnetic science and (2012) from there decided to build this technology in a way that would meld with the larger social values for the various audiences (2012). The ideas that Marconi and others affixed to wireless exist within the con  school text edition of socially  offered ideology (Toscano, 2012). Akesson (2005) argues that to realize a technology held a lot more  inwardness than simply producing a working model because technological realization goes beyond the product and depends on relations, feelings, emotions and  paganly constructed beliefs about whether something is worth  frameing in or not (2012). His main argument was marketing. All technologies need great marketing for recognition.Because technologies must fit within a cultures values and attitudes, the marketing involved will either have to adhere or be made to seem to adhere to prevailing cultural beliefs (2012). Since a society will either accept or reject a technology the ways in which the technology fits or made to    fit into (2012) their social life greatly depends on the way the audience (2012) perceives the technology. Radar makes for a larger story in science and technology. Some say that radar contributed very little to the theory that had been known all the way back to Maxwell and Hertz.Therefore, radar cannot be attributed to the advancement of science. It can only be said that radar was simply a matter of technology and engineering. Others argue the enormous concrete significances of the development of radar stating that the technology contributed to the Allied victory in World War II, surpassing the Atomic Bomb by far. According to author Robert Buderi, it was the pioneer of many  neo technologies. In his book, The Invention that Changed the World How a small group of Radar Pioneers won the Second World War and launched a technological revolution, he discusses some of these technologies in more depth (2012).Some specific abilities mentioned are the ability of astronomers to map the del   ineations of faraway planets, the ability of doctors to view internal organs, and being able to measure  rainwater in distant places. He also goes on to talk about the fact that traveling by air is  degree Celsius times safer than traveling by roads, telephone calls being cheaper than sending letter through the mail, and last but not least, the ability to cook ones dinner in between TV shows with, what used to be called the a radar range, aka microwave oven, (2012).Technology may not change the way people see the world or bring in new social conditions, but it does change a persons practices. For example, the mobile phone introduced a new way of making phone calls. People can now place a phone call from almost anywhere to almost anywhere. It seems the social groups found this technology along with suburban life styles. As such, this technology was accepted within the culture. When a particular technological product proves useful, people will attempt to work the product into their so   cial activities.What is it that makes a technological product a technology? For the most part, anything that is computer based and hi-tech is considered technology by society. Technology spans a much wider context though. In all correctness, a technology is any scientific based knowledge that focuses on procedures and engineering. It is this knowledge that groups socially build into values and practices. When the group accepts the technology based on their observation of importance and application, it becomes a steadied technology created in part on the significance they  trace in the actual device (2012).Whether a device is an actual hand tool such as a hammer or keyboard, or a mental device such as a (2012) scientific  rule, it usually is defined as the obtainable understanding of a society diligently attached to industry and market. This of technologically advanced worlds economy depends heavily on the creation of new advancements for growth and prosperity (2012). Technological a   dvancements include anything from engineering ideas that increase production to products produced by vastly streamlined,  good systems.People perceive and will continue to perceive technology as some type of tool  relate to work or profit, and the term modernization will continue to suggest that a nation develops technologies that will theoretically improve its economic position (2012). Wireless Technology Timeline (Wilson) The next three pages give a basic layout of some of the most important events that occurred during the development of wireless technology. This timeline is a basic synopsis and is not to be taken as complete. These are just some of the basic highlights starting in 1897 and ending in 2010. Political Effects on Development Wilson) In the beginning of the 20th century, developments in the area of wireless technology made a  large impact on everyday life. Today these technologies are essential for modern day living. The early wireless technology that was developed in    the late nineteenth century is the core of our televisions and radio broadcasting. Our radar and satellite communications systems also originated from this technology. Wireless laid out the roadmap for our person-to-person mobile communications and allowed for the creation of the technology of mass intake today  the cellular technology (Mingtao, 2007).Most of the wireless manufacturers in Germany and across Europe at this time were dealing their equipment to the national navies and they could only  introduce their equipment on huge military and trading ships reason being, aerials had to sit up high in order to detect the wireless signals with reasonable sensitivity. The only ships that were able to accommodate such equipment were shockingly huge (2007).  maven of the oldest tricks in the book is to send out secret messages hidden by a method called steganography, a Greek  script meaning concealed writing.With such a long history, Steganography led to the invention of invisible ink    and microdots.  Steganography alone is not very secure. The messages were easily deciphered. It was soon discovered that by manipulating the letters in the message, the message could remain hidden even if the message was found. This resulted in cryptography, a Greek word meaning hidden writing (Goebel, 2012). According to Goebel, cryptography takes two forms codes and ciphers.  A code is a secret language intended to conceal a message (2012). A cipher conceals a plain text message by replacing or scrambling the letters (2012). Encryption covers both encoding and enciphering, while  decryption covers both decoding and deciphering. Together, the two fields make up the science of cryptology  (2012). To this day, coding and ciphering are heavily used. During World War I and II, codermakers and codebreakers flourished, especially since each side kept designing even more complex ciphers than their adversaries kept. These were deemed so important through the course of the war, that by the    end, cryptologic organizations turned into huge establishments that were  change magnitudely involved in military practice and operations (2012).This cryptography had serious effects on German politics during the war, as it was almost unavoidable to intercept messages meant for the other side. When messages were broadcasted over the airwaves, whoever was listening could easily pick them up (2012). This left the German military susceptible to sabotage. World War II would lead to an explosion of even more, new technologies that would have weighty effects in the postwar period (2012). Legal Issues Related to Wireless Technology (Wilson) Almost from the very beginning of wireless technology, there has been a need for regulation.Since broadcasting signals are transmitted through the air with no repute for political boundaries, regulation usually occurs at the federal level. The first regulatory actions took place in 1910 with the U. S. Wireless Act in which all American ships were to be    equipped with broadcasting transmitters and qualified operators any time they were at sea. Other countries quickly followed this practice. To be considered are three different types of regulations Spectrum  commandment, Industrial and security regulation, and Radio frequency  preventative regulation.The Spectrum Regulation issues  In order to competently share the determinate (Egea-Lopez, 2004) available frequency spectrum (2004) while avoiding  balk between them (2004), it is necessary to regulate the transmissions coming from the equipment. There are organizations in place that perform the regulations. They are FCC (Federal  communication theory Commission) in the United States, the ITU (International Telecommunications Union), the Japan Association of Radio Industries and Business, and the ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute). These specific recommendations and rules apply where ) the range of a particular technology is limited by the amount of power b) electrom   agnetic fields (EMF) and noise  outpourings are at their peak c) frequency bands. Licensed and unlicensed bands exist in existence are distinguished by regulatory bodies such as ISM (Industrial Scientific and Medical) which is used the same in most countries. Because no technology is in control of these bands a variety of devices are able to share the same range of frequencies (2004). IEEE 802. 11 and the Bluetooth device both operate at this band mainly because it is free.By law, the maximum power emission is limited (2004). Industrial and security regulation issues  Industrial areas almost always have certain restrictions placed on them and wireless is not an exception to this rule. Depending on the possible accidental risk that could occur, explosive atmospheres along with environmentally dangerous areas may be classified as hazardous areas. In this case, only fundamentally safe equipment are permitted (2004). Europe has a directive called the Atmosphere Explosive directive (ATEX   ) that states all wireless devices have to be certified by the CEN/CENELEC (2004).Radio frequency safety regulation issues  This regulation pertains to the wellness and safety of humans, therefore the electromagnetic emissions have to limited and specific technologies are expected to obey these regulations (2004). Legal Concerns Related to the Development of Wireless Technology (Wilson) After Marconi made his discoveries, he moved to Britain to obtain financial funding for his project. With Britains need for quick and effective deployment of naval ships and commercial fleets, this was a perfect choice for Marconi.He developed his invention and marketed it for military and industrial (OECD, n. d. ) needs. After only five years, a wireless signal was transmitted across the Atlantic Ocean from England to Newfoundland (n. d. ). This event won Marconi the Nobel Prize (n. d. ) in 1909 for physics. It also started a new revolution of laws and regulations. Germany sponsored a preliminary  c   onference concerning wireless telegraphy (White, 2003) at Berlin in 1903 to discuss some outstanding issues in regards to the development of the wireless technology.Though the conference proved to be a success a few areas, the topic of intercommunication procedures between different stations and their stations, remained unresolved. A document titled Final Protocol,  outgrowth International Radio Telegraphic Conference, Berlin, 1903 (2003) laid out detailed information for other countries to review until the conference convened. When the conference convened in Berlin in 1906, it was agreed coastal and ship stations were to interchange messages with each other regardless of whether the equipment was Marconis or a competitive supplier.Because some countries already entered into a contract  accord with Marconi, signing the new policy would be a violation (2003). In April of 1912, a ship equipped with Marconi equipment and staffed by Marconi operators, crashed into an iceberg off the coa   st of Newfoundland. Distress calls were made from the ship however as the call came in, amateur broadcasters heard about it and filled the airwaves up and down the coast, creating so much static and interference that the distress call went unheard. 1. 02 people lost their lives that night. In 1912, London held an International Convention as well. both the Berlin and the London Conventions covered international communication but for the mostly they added to the international protocols of wire-telegraphy connections. Regulations regarding radio and news stations were not addressed at this time but would be covered in depth after the tragic Titanic incident. With the prohibition of privately owned stations, many radio pioneers found themselves without jobs.In 1920, commercial and government radiotelegraphic stations were everywhere as the world experienced a major outbreak. Radiotelegraphy became the new thing for all commercial and passenger ships. In 1930, the wireless telegraphy usi   ng radio signals was developed. This quickly became the  net device in communications for distant countries and lasted many years due to its reliability (2003).  scotchs in Relation to Wireless Technology (Tiemens) There is a lot of debate about how much governments should be involved when it comes to the economy.Should a government raise taxes in an attempt to increase income and build a  strengthened infrastructure or should the government limit its role and depend more on a free market and competition. Many economists could debate this question indefinitely and no matter the outcome, a governments involvement may be necessary when the country has a resource so finite that only a handful of companies can have access to it and so valuable that it can change the entire GDP of a country, such a resource exists in waveforms.There are only certain amounts of  working(a) waveforms that can be used, so it needs to be divided up so not to overlap each other. We would not want radio signal   s being broadcast on the same frequencies as aircraft use, since this could be catastrophic interference. For this reason, governments allot specific bands of frequencies to certain industries and with the increasing value of wireless technology this has become a great resource to a country. Many countries have turned to a form of auction to sell rights to this valuable resource.These auctions provide companies the ability to offer a product to their customers, as well as bring in  plusal funds to the government. In an effort to broaden their wireless networks and look to the future with 4G, Germany  recently went through such an auction. In 2008, Germany finished its analog to digital transition, which frees up a substantial amount of bandwidth. Having enough bandwidth to allocate, the German government put 358. 8 MHz of spectrum space up for auction, which concluded in May 2010. The 358. MHz that Germany auctioned off consisted of four bands 800 MHz, 1800 MHz, 2100 MHz and 2. 5 GH   z (Tolaga Research. 2010). Having four separate bandwidths for  bargain boosted competition since there were multiple bidders, which should then set up Germany to enhance their technology, as well as build a  unfaltering and growing economic future. One of the main functions of government is to build and maintain a strong infrastructure, which is usually thought of as freeways and bridges, but in the modern techno world, a strong broadband and wireless infrastructure is just as important.To improve their current infrastructure, Germany set a few conditions within the spectrum auction. The winning bidders are required to focus on improving coverage in  unpolished markets before they are permitted to service urban areas (Tolaga Research. 2010). Companies are forced to provide service to outlying areas with the smallest  creation first, then eventually getting to the cities where the companies can start providing 4G networks. These auctions not only will provide a vast wireless infrast   ructure for Germany, but also provided proceeds of 4. 85  jillion euro ($5. 882  one thousand million USD) (Tolaga Research. 2010). One of the top bidders in this German auction was Deutsche Telekom, which is the parent company to T-Mobile. This German company is known worldwide which says a lot about the importance of wireless in Germany. Deutsche Telekom has 130 million mobile customers, 17 million broadband customers and around 4. 6 million internet television customers in 50 countries around the world. Because of their success, this company employs over 233,000 people, has revenue of 58. 7  one thousand million euros ($78. billion USD) and is ranked in the top 100 companies worldwide. Just in Germany, Deutsche Telekom has 35 million mobile customers and revenue of 24 billion euro ($32. 1 billion USD) and is building a strong  bloodline class offering an expanding Cloud service and network security. Deutsche Telekom is one of the biggest wireless providers in the world and with a    free cash flow of 6. 4 billion euros ($8. 56 billion USD) they were one of the top bidders during the auction and will now be paving the way for a strong wireless system in Germany (Deutsche Telekom. . d. ). Building a strong wireless network can really help boost a nations economy, both immediately and in the future. There is evidence to support that wireless technology provides immediate jobs, boosts production as well as  thriftiness money on government expenses, such as health care. Germany has the 5th economy in the world and the largest in Europe but since they dont have many natural resources they need to find other means of prosperity and with a strong wireless network this economy can flourish.Decreasing demand for German exports, a financial crisis in Europe and high unemployment has placed a financial burden on the country (Central Intelligence Agency. 2012). The German government has taken steps to try to boost the economy and  fortify the wireless network is one-step c   loser. The tagline from the movie Field of Dreams if you build it, they will come could also be the tagline for the German marketplace (Frankish, B. & Robinson, P. 1989). Building a network that will allow businesses to be creative and invest will attract companies to an already business friendly location.According to Ernst & Youngs European Attractiveness  subject field 2012 Germany is one of the most attractive business locations in the world, while an American Chamber of Commerce  learning found that 73% of American companies named Germany their first choice to do business with and invest in (Germany  alternate and Invest. 2012). So many companies prefer to do business in Germany due to the countries welcoming attitude toward  strange investments. The German government makes no distinctions between domestic and  international companies and with very little regulations, it is ideal for business start-up.To entice companies and individuals from around the world to invest within Ger   many, the government provides incentives, such as grants for start-up capital as well as grants to help with wages as companies start hiring employees. There are over 55,000 foreign companies in Germany, employing around 3,000,000 people. The majority of investments in Germany are in ICT (information and communications technology) and  bundle making up 18% of the GDP, so to improve the wireless sector will provide even more  probability and growth (Germany Trade and Invest. 2012).With such a great business environment, one field that can really succeed with a good wireless system is software development. The creation of mobile apps has become one of the most lucrative businesses and the more people that have access to wireless the more this business will grow. To date there has been 18 billion Apple apps downloaded followed by 10 billion downloads for android. The downloads for Apple and Android apps produce $1 billion a month worldwide so there is a lot of potential for software co   mpanies, especially in a country that makes it easy for companies to do business in.There is no direct data for Germany, but in 2011, the United States had over 5000 job posting for app developers so with Germany  move the wireless market there is a lot of potential for jobs to be created (Executive  office staff of the President Council of Economic Advisors. 2012). Mobile apps are in such high demand that just two months after HBO released its mobile app, 3 million consumers downloaded it, which makes up more than 10% of HBOs subscriber base (Executive Office of the President Council of Economic Advisors. 2012).More companies are also turning to streaming, especially since the number of people that view video  theme with their mobile devices has doubled in two years and this will increase even more when more people have access to 4G or LTE. According to Dr. Thomas Schierl of Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications in Berlin, Germany Todays mobile internet is faster than the typ   ical DSL connection people have in their homes, which means a lot of users will choose to go online vie LTE even when at home (Federal Ministry of Education and Research. 2013). Dr.Schierl is in charge of combining the video compression standard currently used with the LTE standard (similar to 4G) which will allow for the best possible streaming of content. Germany is actively trying to make wireless technology better and with a better streaming format, there will more opportunities for companies to add streaming content. Many U. S. companies have been extremely successful with streaming formats such as Funny or Die blip. tv, along with many sports venues offering pay per view on mobile devices. A fast network is not only attractive to consumers but allows more opportunities for company start-ups.There is obviously a lot of potential for jobs to be created for software developers that make entertainment apps however there are other apps developed that boosts production. With the use    of mobile devices, employees are able to have video conferencing from any location, which can save time and money. There are also numerous apps that are more focused on certain industries, such as transportation logistics,  chronicle and sales data just to name a few. These applications allow employees to perform work functions from anywhere, which can make someone much more productive.It is estimated that by the year 2016 there will be 830 million users of business-employee and business-consumer apps so this is definitely a growing  rationalize that creates jobs for people developing the apps as well as increasing production for employees in other fields (Executive Office of the President Council of Economic Advisors. 2012). Besides the mobile apps boosting productions from employees, the wireless devices can also increase production by allowing employees work locations to be more  limber which they can then access information and resources while being on the go.The Intel Corporat   ion performed a  deal on mobile productions and found that with better mobile devices, employees were able to finish their tasks 37. 3% faster. According to this study, there was a 5% weekly timesaving, which equals 100 hours saved per employee during the course of a year. The employees in the study also commented that they had a better outlook on production therefore, it made them even more productive while increasing their morale (Intel Information Technology. 2003).This study involved just the mobility aspects since the employees were using laptops, but given other mobile devices such as smartphones or tablets, then the use of applications could even increase production more. Mobile apps have become an asset to many businesses and as mobile devices and wireless areas continue to grow, new business related apps would also grow boosting production at the same time. When it comes to mobile devices, applications are not the only benefit to businesses because in addition to increasing    production they can also save companies money.A growing trend for small businesses is the utilization of cloud-based  storage offered by Apple and a few other companies. On-line storage is used publicly to save pictures and music, but businesses have found this to be very beneficial since this type of storage does not require any additional fees. Information can be backed-up from anywhere and the company does not have to buy expensive on-site back-up systems (Executive Office of the President Council of Economic Advisors. 2012). In addition to on-line storage, the mobile devices themselves save a company money, since they are a low cost way of accessing web-based services.When widespread wireless is available, mobile devices can perform many of the functions of a more expensive computer so they have become a cheaper alternative. According to an AT&T survey of small business 1/3 use a cloud based storage while ? use business based apps (AT&T. 2011). When there is a good wireless inf   rastructure, mobile devices can improve a countries economy because they can create jobs, boost employee production and save companies money but it can also help with one of the countrys biggest cost healthcare.As with most countries, healthcare is one of the biggest expenses for Germany. According to the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development), Germanys healthcare expenses make up 11. 6% of the entire GDP which makes it one of the biggest single expenses. Germany has the fourth health expenditure in the world (United States has the highest) so any savings within the healthcare industry can help the economy of the entire country (OECD. 2012).Wireless technology has the ability to drastically reduce cost for healthcare by making it more efficient. With Germany working on providing wireless capabilities in rural areas, doctors will be able to interact with elderly patients in the outlying areas, which can help with preventive care while also freeing up, more time    for doctors so they can see more patients. The whole system also has the ability of becoming more efficient by allowing doctors to instantly retrieve health records,  diagnostic information, lab results and even  medical exam images.With the right apps, these records can be retrieved from any location at a moments notice, which saves time and money. One such company that has software that can help the medical field is Airstrips Technologies. Airstrips Technologies offers mobile apps that send real-time waveform data directly from the hospital  manageing equipment to mobile devices. Using this app allows  physicians that are waiting to perform childbirth to monitor fetal heartbeats, maternal contractions as well as other vital signs so they can monitor the situation from any location.Another very useful app is Mobile MIM, which allows doctors to have access to diagnostic images, such as MRIs, X-rays and ultrasounds that will allow fast and accurate diagnosis from any location as wel   l as consult with peers for difficult cases. There are other apps available that can monitor blood pressure, glucose levels,  raise density and even an app to record the time and place an inhaler was used which can be used to help prevent asthma attacks (Executive Office of the President Council of Economic Advisors. 2012).Just the remote monitoring of routine patients can save a lot of money, but one of the biggest overall costs with healthcare is patients with chronic conditions. One way to battle, the cost of chronic disorders is to identify the problems as early as possible therefore  property the patients out of hospital beds. Corventis Inc. is a company that can help with these high costs. They have developed an app that monitors a patients heart rate, respiratory rate and other vital signs and also detects and transmits directly to the physician any irregularities.This will help catch any problems as early as possible (Executive Office of the President Council of Economic Adv   isors. 2012). Healthcare is a huge expense to a country and it is continually rising, but with the help of wireless technology these costs can be reduced which can actually help the entire economy of a country. The United States does spend more on healthcare than Germany, but  consort to the White House the U. S. is expected to reduce healthcare cost by $2-$6 billion, by the year 2014 with the help of wireless technologies available (Executive Office of the President Council of Economic Advisors. 012). Psychological considerations and sociological effects Personal Communication (Wells) When it comes time to speak to someone, the first device reached for is the cell phone. It is not to necessarily call, but text someone what they need or feel. Communication has changed the world in how we speak to one another. A family can now speak continents apart from each other via email, instant messaging, Skype, Facebook or Twitter. However, misunderstandings tend to occur due to lack of interp   retation of body language, tone and facial expressions.Over 66% of marriages in the US end in divorce due to Facebook (Mills, 2011). Apologies are now text instead of heard. Have we become blinded by the method in which we communicate to the point of feeling this is normal? In todays age of wireless technology, communication has affected us in a unique methodology rendering us vulnerable emotionally numb, socially inept and psychologically indifferent without our awareness of this gradual change (Silverman & Blackwell, n. d. ). Texting has invaded the world by storm.A software engineer by Neil Papworth, to Vodafone director Richard Jarvis, who received the message on his Orbitel 901 cell phone, sent the first text message from a computer to a mobile phone in 1992 (Turrettini, 2012). Since then, there have been an explosion of text messages from 14 billion in 2000 to 188 billion in 2010, according to a Pew Institute survey (Kluger, 2012). That number has not decreased. CNNs article s   eries of We Never  prate Anymore has revealed how much we truly do not talk to one another. Today six billion short messages service (SMS) are sent every day in the United States and over 2.  one million million million are sent a year, according to Forrester Research (Haraldsson, 2012). Globally, 8. 6 trillion text messages are sent each year, according to Portio Research (Kluger, 2012). The in-person communication has been lost in the midst of our new technological age (2012). The greatest fear is for the adolescent generation that sees this as a norm. As interpersonal skills are still in development, we find that texting does not aid in this development. Using text messaging halts some of the key important areas of interpersonal skills.Sherry Turkle, a Developmental Psychologist, believes that conversations with another person teach kids to, in effect, have a conversation with themselves (2012). This enhances the skills to think reason and self-reflect. In the United States, 75%    of teenagers text, sending an average of 60 texts a day (2012). According to Pew Internet research, texting is teens most common form of (Kelly, 2012) communication, beating out phone conversations, social networks and face-to-face conversations (Silverman  Blackwell, n. d. ). It would even appear that texting has its own new language.Language has changed from verbally  express mirth to LOL for laughing out loud, OMG for oh my God/goodness/gosh, depending on the language choice, and TTYL for talk to you later.  TV shows are encouraging this method of language by vocalizing them. For example, OMG or I-am-so-bored dot com.  As depicted from The Braxtons Reality Show. This new-age form of communicating has lost the effect of apologies. Apology text now replaces the visual sincerity and eye gazing messages of What I did was wrong and I am sorry.  A visual cue is missing when an apology is texted rather than said in person.These factors are creating a state of new adults that are interpe   rsonal illiterate will not aid their relationship building skills (n. d. ). Emotional Disconnect (Wells) Facebook is a great way of staying connected, but it can also feel like an emotional battleground. Facebook has changed communication on a global scale. From one side of the world to another there are phone applications that translate different languages and people can communicate across the globe. Emotional disconnections have allowed for cyber bullying and divorces due to a disregard for others feelings.It is easy to do when  flavor at a computer screen or cell phone rather than a human being. An overwhelming 95% of social media-using teens who have witnessed cruel behavior on social networking sites say they have seen others ignoring the mean behavior (Lenhart, 2007). At least 33% teens have been cyber bullied according to Pew Internet and American Life Survey, 2011. This new form of humiliation has created new advertisements to stop cyber bullying. This type of bullying has c   aused many parents to send their children to online schools to avoid the bullying mentality (Allweiss, 2013). Has internet roman take over as our new form of  go out?More people are going to online match dating sites looking for a mate. An estimated 40 million Americans have tried online dating and dating sites will collectively gross $2 billion in 2012 (Barber  Bigham, 2012). Would this form of dating be similar to shopping online? There is a larger  consortium of choices it offers an alternative to relying on family and friends as matchmakers. People are able to seek relationships with older age people and the increase in broadband access to the Internet has expanded the potential market. You can almost place 100 eligible bachelors or bachelorettes in your shopping cart and hope for the best.It is estimated that 1 in 5 marriages are a result of online dating. However, there is a difference between meeting many people and finding a compatible partner. Romance is difficult to come b   y if the interpersonal skills were not well developed during adolescence and even worse as they grow into adults. Online dating has its positives and negatives, but many have found that getting to know the person mentally has been a better experience for them. It is not limited to any particular type of group or fad many singles have taken to utilizing the online dating as a better method of communication (Hoggard  Hephzibah, 2012).This is also an attractive offer for predators as well. It was estimated in 2005 that 25% of rapists use online dating sites to find their victims (Barber  Bingham, 2012). The popularity of online dating services has only grown since then. With the prevalence of rapes and  inner assault going unreported and the low conviction rate for those accused (1. 2%) (2012). Wireless technology forces us to fake our personalities because of the perception of how we are perceived. This transition of putting thoughts on the web has begun to affect the perceptions of w   ho we are.Employers now review potential new employees Facebook page to get a  
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