eetings, that countries are different and cultures are different and that means markets are different. From where we were sitting at that particular time in that particular place we could see St Johns, Trinity College and Caius College with Clare College and Kings College in the distance, nestling along the River Cam. Over the centuries those colleges had hosted Isaac Newton 1643 to 1727, who did that stuff with the apple, but more importantly developed the science of differential and integral calculus, Charles Babbage 1791 to 1871 the man who built the world's first mechanical computer unless you count the abacus several thousand years before, Augustus Morgan 1806 to 1871 a founding father of algebraic and algorithmic innovation, Srinivasa Ramanujan 1887 to 1920 the Indian mystic and number theory man, Alan Turing 1917 to 1954 the master of encryption, Paul Dirac 1927 to 1969 a pioneer of quantum mechanics and nanotechnology and Stephen Hawking cosmology and string theory. These seven mathematicians of course only represent a small fraction of the legacy of intellectual innovation upon which telecommunications value is ultimately built, a future that will be built on a combination of materials innovation, manufacturing innovation and mathematical and algorithmic innovation. As we started this book with a science fiction author we may as well end it with one, William Gibson. Gibson invented the term cyberspace in a short story called Burning Chrome that was then included in his debut novel Neuromancer in 1984. In a 1993 interview he is said to have said - 'The future is already here - it's just not very evenly distributed'. Telecommunications has the power to unlock and redistribute the intellectual and innovation power of the world's population - a truly transformative transform. 7 R Swaminathan Reliance Communications India and Kanwar Chadha CMO CSR. Index 1X EV DO networks, 282 Admission control algorithms, 224, 373 1XEV, 68, 76, 78 Adobe Systems, 200 1XEV/DO, 69 ADSL, 7, 17, 36-41, 45, 70-71, 105, 288, 2D fil