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- Farmer77, on 04/28/2008, -1/+13Anything that can get me out of paying $50 a month to the cable company is the next big thing.
- mikephimikephi, on 04/28/2008, -0/+10Buried for ***** use of the term 'futuristic'
Japan has been making video calls and retrieving data over the web via cell phone images for many years.
By this articles logic, Japan must consider landing on the moon 'futuristic' because they havent done it -
even though it occurred decades ago. It's the same kind of lameass logic that old people use to dismiss technology they
don't understand. Like when my dad sends an SMS to himself and gasps "What and age we live in"
/rant - Rustymetal, on 04/28/2008, -1/+9next big thing... the price tag
- Rinnt, on 04/28/2008, -1/+7Power over wireless. Can't wait to see it it. I don't think it's the next big thing, but when it does eventually happen "big" will be an understatement.
- luckyguy2000, on 04/28/2008, -0/+6ive seen the future! we'll die at 40years of age with cancer caused by radiation.
- TheHydrogens, on 04/28/2008, -0/+5"The future is already here - it is just unevenly distributed"
- Tenlow, on 04/28/2008, -0/+4Wrong kind of wireless.
- PromaneX, on 04/28/2008, -0/+3we have had mobile 2-way video calling in the uk for years too, works easy over the 3G networks we have here
- veloscaper, on 04/28/2008, -1/+4so paying $60 to another company is better?
whatever happens, no company is going to invest in reducing their own revenue. Unless Bush is the CEO. - spikyface, on 04/28/2008, -0/+3Goddamn son, that's one helluva rant
You should be proud - CWise, on 04/28/2008, -0/+3
"Consider the prospect of two-way video on handheld devices. For instance, parents may be able to use cell phones to talk face to face with a son or daughter at college."
Already available along with half the other "new features". This is a very very badly researched article. - cuoops, on 04/28/2008, -0/+2I just want my cell phone to work everywhere.
- veloscaper, on 04/28/2008, -1/+3and it sucks
- veloscaper, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1I think we already have this one and will always have this one, one way or another.
- QsheiK, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1Wireless power going mainstream.
- eldridgea, on 04/28/2008, -0/+120 Mb email attachments will be the norm? They already are for me!
- DarkDx, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1Give us Gi-fi or whatever it's called, danm it. It would be ten times (100 time theorically lol) than that POS bluetooth.
- neodorian, on 04/29/2008, -0/+1My cell phone already does act as a WiFi AP with high speed cellular.
Look up WMWiFiRouter. - LilBoyLuver, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1Damn, until that time I am going to have to type "Eiffel Tower" into google.
What a terrible example of the uses of photographic searching. - cohortq, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1I think it can be done. But can it be done without causing cancer?
- Cussons, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1Still it is pretty important piece, good to think about what is coming.
- joeanon, on 04/28/2008, -4/+4We need home based long range access points in an effort to form a user mesh wireless network that's untouchable by government or corporate American.
Imagine.. a plug in for your X box or such that enables it as a wifi AP and repeater but with cell phone level distance instead of a few hundred meters.
Less bandwidth and more distance on WIFI could make it happen without waiting for the government to NEVER give us free wireless. And they can SUCK IT on the average user having to keep a log of users accessing through it.
It's really nothing amazing. The old CB network was able to hop all around the country. I'm sure we can do that with data also. Speed beyond 1 mbps isn't really important. It just needs to be enough to get free internet and free telephone.. maybe free TV if your bandwidth allows.
Then people, at their own pace, upgrade the access points as they can. They use their OWN electricity and there is no major costs of leasing towers and such.
Anything else means THEY OWN our data as it passes through their lines. Our data can never be safe in the hands of a centralized organization like Verizon or AT&T or the federal government. Decentralizing it and putting it in the home makes more sense and we gain anonymity similar to that of an onion router.
Even if you had to get an antenna put up... the possibilities of free phone, free TV and free internet are well worth it and I think quite possible. Perhaps we'd been a few points here and there to cover dead areas and there needs to be a gateway to the existing internet, but that's not a big deal.
In my opinion land based data communication cannot keep up with wireless in the long run. BUT satellite will never be any good because you cannot get past the latency of going all the way to orbit and back.
3g networks already offer over 1 megabit even in remote places. Cell towers are already covering most of the US.
They need but keep upgrading the technology. In the end Verizon cannot keep running higher and higher bandwidth fiber as a cost effective means of competing with cellular distribution where you upgrade a few towers and thousands upon thousands of people get faster service.
PLUS cell towers don't fall down in heavy rain storms. Reception may drop some, but they are more reliable in bad weather.
The future is 5g networks and beyond. Plus todays internet really has few needs that call for fiber level speeds. It's a nice business solution but no household really needs that.
HD is a giant waste of money and MONEY and time and BANDWIDTH.
Really does watching high definition sports make your smarter.. Does that help the nation ? Does the information network that puts a interactive library in every house make you smarter... does that help the nation... YES.
The fact Americans are obssessed with HD sports and wrestling more than quality internet is YET ANOTHER REASON TO MOVE TO CANADA.
You know that have national health care, national education and even free internet in some places.
WE ARE GETTING THE SHAFT... from corporate America who's ONLY desire is to make the most money they can while selling us the least expensive and most disposable solution they can, thus ensuring we'll be back soon to get ripped off again.
National wireless is a good option also, likely the least expensive highest speed option to get us all MOBILE.
One problem with the internet and being addicted to it... is not going outside because you can't search google every second of your life.
Well mobility is a must... someday we'll even have internet and health monitoring chips inside us that could benefit from a free wireless data network.
Like ERRR.. I'm out in the middle of nowhere by myself and my health monitor alters me to palpitations... maybe even injects a blood thinner, aspirin or sedative. To stop the heart attack in it's tracks, while sending an alert to 911 and family members or such with your GPS location.
I think a lot of idiots will be fearful of that... but you know... idiots are afraid of everything... except going to War.
I know that we don't really have privacy. Spy satellites from any modern country can watch you and you can't do a danm think about it.
Soon they will have real time monitoring of every city in the US and then they'll have the whole world. So, they'll be able to physically monitor not just where you are, but who you are with and what you are doing. Anytime you aren't inside or hiding in a cave, satellite's will be record you in the not too distant future.
Plus all new cell phones have GPS anyway... soooo I'm not worried about being tracked by my health chip. I'm much more worried about having a random health emergency that could have been easily prevented if I had the warning signs ahead of time.
Either way portable internet HAS to happen for the US economy to stay competitive. We need truly innovative portable devices... not PDAs or smart phone or iPOD, but something not so awkward, preferably without a tiny keyboard that is bound to give you repetitive stress disorder.
Something like a computer sewed into your jacked with a small eyepiece and voice recognition or some similar hands free or minimal hands use interface.
That way you can actually go outside and be OH hey what kind of bug is that... lets me look it up real quick.
Technology becomes part of natural life like that instead of a divide. - darknailblue, on 04/28/2008, -1/+1I don't like that graph that they are using. 20 people is in nooooo way broad enough to get a clear picture of who's doing what with their cell phones. Not to mention, the kind of people that are going to be taking advantage of broadband wireless features are going to be busy professionals. Yeah there will be the youth of the nation sending video mail and doing conference calls but the on-the-go professionals are going to be the first people on the bandwagon with this. THOSE kind of people aren't going to be using their phones for directions. They are going to be using their company provided car with built in GPS to get there and while they are driving, e-mail will be checked following a series of text-messaging and a video conference call with the investors in Japan.
Something like that... - johnny81, on 02/13/2009, -0/+0what the hell was that.
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http://www.linkbuilderz.com/ - veloscaper, on 04/28/2008, -3/+2been done, it's called lighting. maybe you've seen it.
- inactive, on 04/28/2008, -3/+1Wi max is already here.
- Jenadae, on 04/28/2008, -4/+2Your mom...
- WilliamTM, on 05/13/2008, -9/+2Buried, because wireless sucks. Gigabit ethernet ftw.
- inactive, on 04/28/2008, -8/+1in the butt
- inactive, on 04/28/2008, -10/+0in the butt
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