The future is not knowable, but it is “inventable” and discoverable: InventXR

Increased computing power is making digital communication more vulnerable to hacking. Next-generation digital networks are making broadband connectivity a reality anywhere, anytime and Covid-19 has accelerated the pace of Networks. Every facet of our lives is being digitized and networked, as governments around the world push initiatives involving technology enabled learning, self-driving vehicles, environmental monitoring and online payments. This has increased the exchange of sensitive data across networks, and the networking of critical assets including education data. The key to the success of these initiatives is therefore the protection of data integrity, and of data privacy. InventXR is co-founded by one of Silicon Valley’s network security luminaries, Bob Evans who built the first traffic broadcast system that gathered data from Caltrans in LA and broadcast it to offices. His invention led to the way sensor data for traffic flow works in all kinds of devices today. Guys like Eric Schmitt and Vint Cerf played with Bob’s inventions at SUN Microsystems. For context, Vint Cerf is widely known as a “Father of the Internet” and is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet. It is no surprise, Bob Evans’ inventions influenced digital communications today. He built one of the largest data broadcasting companies in the US sending Stock market data from S&P Comstock. When the Super Information Highway came along, he built one of the first ISPs in Palo Alto, California and shortly after, one of the very first Cable modem companies called ISP channel. At Softnet Systems, Bob wired an entire country in Africa, Malawi.net and connected it back to New Jersey through an Intelsat satellite so that they were not subordinate to South Africa. For their first freely elected president while the dictator at the time was under house arrest, he did it for the people of Malawi. Next, he founded an Internet Incubator called Internet Inventions and when The “DOT.com bomb”ended, the incubator closed which led to the founding of Fiber Internet Center in 2001 during the DOT bomb era and was quickly joined by Gus Sanchez.

The NetworkEducation: iStudyXR is a Networked education operating system and leverages Bob’s out of the box thinking to solve seemingly impossible challenges with technology. Traditionally, a dedicated security layer within an education network’s protocol stack, or the software that sets the rules for a network’s interconnectivity, is used to provide secrecy - while the physical layer of networking equipment is limited to tasks related to signal processing and transmission. However, Bob knew from the beginning that a physical layer can also be used to potentially provide security.?

Blockchain and Cryptographic Technology: Emerging cryptographic techniques like quantum cryptography, which relies on physics rather than math in order to encode information using elements such as light particles are being given attention at InventXR and our team has met luminaries like Whitfied-Diffie one of the pioneers of public-key cryptography in developing our incentive blockchain for education solution, the EduCoin?. The first quantum transaction, in 2004, used entangled photons to transfer money into a bank account. At InventXR, we understand that Blockchain is a networking paradigm gaining traction, as a distributed, cryptography-based service enabler and we are still in R&D on that feature. Privacy is not necessarily guaranteed through blockchain, but the integrity of data can be ensured using the technology, which can also reduce transaction costs - and is expected to be adopted for a wide variety of applications in the near future and in particular, education. Blockchain can enable greater trust and transparency through decentralization, cryptography, and the creation of new incentives like iStudyXR’s? EduCoin?. Best-known as the digital underpinning of Bitcoin, it has evolved into a foundational technology with promise in education. While the financial sector is investigating it as a means to replace expensive and inefficient payment systems, it could also reshape supply chains - particularly in combination with the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence - while boosting the practical, day-to-day use of smart contracts and digital identities. However, many questions remain about the best use of the technology, its environmental impact, and its governance and InventXR’s R&D over the years has developed a solution that is now ready to scale across education networks. Given the relatively early stage of the technology’s development, our understanding of blockchain’s vulnerabilities and related best practices grows every day. Its nascent state of development is an important consideration when it comes to scaling applications built on top of blockchain - especially those containing sensitive data. Another important technical consideration where blockchain is involved is interoperability. Currently, the options for communicating between blockchain systems are limited - which means often replicating or creating new siloes for information-sharing. There are several efforts underway to explore potential new commercial interoperability solutions, such as such as the open-source project Polkadot, the decentralized Cosmos network, and the Interledger network of exchanges, though they are all still at relatively early stages.Our world-class experts like Bob Evans believe that policy-makers and system architects must take these new paradigms into account, when conceiving the next generation of communications infrastructure such as the iStudyXR Network System. In addition, communities focused on open source software, developers, and industry groups must seek to ensure that proposed solutions are affordable, and can be widely adopted and that is why InventXR is working with content distribution partners such as Curriki and CK-12 for wider reach.