In the majority of the developed world, it is the foundation on which our personal lives are built, and multinational corporations operate; it underpins global communications and global wars.
DSRC, the technology that underpins V2V communications is actually a variant of common WiFi that falls under the 802.11p standard.
In the last number of years, there have been several high profile cyber security attacks on notable large corporations, and significant vulnerabilities have been found in software technologies which underpin Internet communications [1, 2, 3].
Moreover, Vollmann et al. [ 11], documented discrepancies between the illness representations of people with and without depression, noting that such differences underpin "problematic communications and conflicts in social interactions between depressed and never depressed persons" (p. 5).
Shannon was the guy who coined the term "bit" for the primary unit of information, and provided a secure theoretical underpinning for electronic communications (so in a way he's the godfather of the modern world).
There's an arcane mathematical discipline called "information theory" that underpins all digital communications nowadays and yet resolutely disdains to make any connection between information and meaning.
The accurate keeping of universally accepted time also underpins computing and communications networks.
The Iraq Inquiry says it has reached agreement on the "principles that will underpin disclosure" of communications between former US President George Bush and former Prime Minister Tony Blair.
By all accounts, Qualcomm's technology underpins all modern communications.
Mike Burgess, the director-general of the Australian Signals Directorate, says if "high-risk vendor equipment" is used anywhere in Australia's evolving 5G network, the future communications system underpinning our water supply and electricity grid and health systems, even self-driving cars, could not be protected.
We identified five elements that underpin Toyota's unique communications system.
