From: "john wilson" <johnresearch@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: November 13, 2005 3:26:03 AM PST
To: dewayne@xxxxxxxxxx, dewayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: mobility-special-ft
Dewayne
Another FT article, lengthy, good, re mobile comms, with
interesting refs to wireless/wifi (also relates earlier MIT
wireless campus story of this wk):
eg
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Tools such as e-mail and instant messaging may have been around
since the dawn of the internet era, but it has taken a wireless
communications revolution to turn them into a constant and
inescapable fact of life for a growing part of the population. WiFi
networks - a low-cost technology that can beam large chunks of data
over short distances using part of the radio spectrum that was
previously the preserve of gadgets such as garage door openers and
baby monitors - assure the digitally addicted of a permanent and
ubiquitous connection to the wider world. At the same time, more
versatile mobile phones have turned text messages into the
communications tool of choice for teenagers in Asia and Europe, if
not yet the US, while also bringing e-mail to many handsets. For
those in the grip of these new networks, life has changed. There’s
no such thing as solitude any more, no fragment of time that cannot
be filled with digital chatter.
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Its a v long article, I have posted full version to my blog here:
<http://prismspectrum.blogspot.com/2005/11/mobility-special-ft.html>