On a practical level, it's about finding places to market and sell Native-made goods, Metcalfe said.
In March, Metcalfe was in Las Vegas, Santa Fe and Portland for events promoting Native fashion.
This one's named after Robert Metcalfe , the inventor of the computer networking protocol Ethernet.
Metcalfe sits on Avistar (nasdaq: AVSR - news - people )'s board.
Councillor Ric Metcalfe, the authority's leader, said he wanted to make sure they were safe to use.
Company owner Peter Metcalfe said his driver had "relied too heavily on his sat-nav" and had been reprimanded.
At age 44, a multimillionaire from 3Com, Metcalfe retired and knocked around the computer circuit as a pundit.
Bob Metcalfe sat across from me in his Beacon Hill home on a Friday night just before Christmas.
Metcalfe's legend in tech circles grew out of Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) labs in the 1970s.
Actors Orlando Bloom and Jesse Metcalfe have also been linked to the play.
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Metcalfe says they should be showing better examples -- tasteful, appropriate use of Native iconography, and talented Native designers.
"Creativity is our tradition and there's a lot of talent in Indian Country waiting to be exposed, " Metcalfe said.
"It works on Boston Harbor water, on Charles River water, anything, " says Metcalfe.
Metcalfe said the usefulness of a network improves by the square of the number of nodes on the network.
Today Metcalfe is predicting that the next big thing will be video Internet.
That is, until a few crazies such as Steve Jobs, Bob Metcalfe and John Warnock broke in and liberated them.
Fashioned as part Bell Labs, part groovy Esalen Institute, PARC recruited top young scientists like Metcalfe and let them play.
Mr Metcalfe founded a company called 3Com to start making and selling components that allowed others to create ethernet networks.
Three years after sending those first packets of data, the network created by Metcalfe and Boggs had 100 machines on it.
The result was the Beyond Buckskin Lookbook, which Metcalfe says is the first compilation of modern Native fashion produced exclusively by Natives.
Replacements: Steve Scott (Edinburgh), Gordon McIlwham (Glasgow), Richard Metcalfe (Edinburgh), Jon Petrie (Glasgow), Andy Nicol (Glasgow), Glenn Metcalfe (Glasgow), Cameron Murray (Edinburgh).
Since this is a first generation technology deployment, scrambling in the last three months is leaving things a bit late, Metcalfe added.
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And I suspect Metcalfe is right about the future of Web video.
To distinguish it from the Aloha system Mr Metcalfe dubbed it "ethernet".
"The thought seemed to be that these workers had their chance and it was time for them to move on, " Ms Metcalfe said.
At 56, Metcalfe looked fine and fit, pulsating through the phone wires at 384 kilobits per second on an Avistar desktop videoconferencing system.
Research work by Mr Metcalfe and his co-worker established that they could swap far more data far faster than over the Hawaiian network.
Until last month, blogger and consultant Ben Metcalfe had been operating a web site, vb.ly, with writer and sex educator Violet Blue.
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Robert Metcalfe, who three decades ago invented Ethernet, the first great electronic protocol for computer networks, foresees a "gigalapse"--a blackout spanning one billion person-hours.
While eating pizza one day in the kitchen of a college friend of Mr Metcalfe, they were discussing ideas for Ethernet-based home automation systems.
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