Widespread Wi-Fi

September 10th, 2005

The glorious day is fast approacing. The day when you don’t have to think about whether you can connect wirelessly to the internet. The day where interconnectivity of devices and the spreading of information is like a vast ocean all around us and we are just fish swiming in it, passing it through our gills.

Metro buses in Seattle are begining to pilot Wi-Fi on their routes. This is very cool, another baby-step toward ubiquitous connectivity. But are we going to have millions of little access points on everything imaginable soon? Are ourselves and our devices going to be able to navigate into and between all of these little access points as we live?

I think we will need help. The government/world needs to build a great big access point in the sky that everyone can connect to. In addition, we are never going to advance if we have to rely on these shitty cell phone/laptop batteries forever. Where is wireless energy at?

The government/world could incorporate both of these things, wireless connectivity to all information and energy, together into an almost super-intelligent being that could revolutionize they way humans live. It might look something like this:

HAL

We need to start working on it now!

One Response to “Widespread Wi-Fi”

  1. Plug Me In Says:

    I’m ready for the revolution, but what kind of equipment will we have to carry around? I’d prefer to have components surgically implanted so I don’t have to mess with anything. Then they could possibly rig the body to act as a battery. Music that streams right into my audio canal, the body vibrates on an in coming call and you blink twice to answer. If there is a huge TB satelite pumping access, there’s no need for the patriot act, well be walking IPs.

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