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A World of Connections -- Wireless Broadband -- Empowering the Individual

I ran across an interesting article printed in The Economist and available on-line.  It is more justification for the need to build a wireless mesh infrastructure just like we have city streets to support commerce and the community's well being.

"In the years ahead new wireless technologies will appear in a plethora of devices, much as computer chips did in the second half of the 20th century."

"For all the excitement, it will be a while before machine-to-machine (M2M) communications and sensor networks become ubiquitous. Although the technology exists, different approaches do not as yet work well together. Unlike computer software, which can be deployed with a few mouse-clicks, each system still needs to be tailor-made. And the melding of communications and computing brings together two industries and engineering cultures that are generally at odds, slowing progress. Moreover, the business models to justify the time and cost of adding wireless services are embryonic."
http://www.economist.com/surveys/displayStory.cfm?story_id=9032088&fsrc=nwlehfree

With more standards being developed to support M2M operations our communitycan be on forefront of building a creative and vibrant culture.  Now can you see us evolving into a Borg like society depicted in modern Star Trek series? :-))

 Mark Hall