Sunday, March 11, 2007

The Future


This article provides some insight into an interesting phenomen that is occurring now in the United States and increasingly abroad. Wireless internet gives us a generous glimpse of what is to come in the future concerning science and technology advances. We now live in a society that allows us to buy hamburgers by wireless phone, watfch and record videos, and access important information in a device that's getting close to the size of a credit card. Basicallly, the lowering price of cell phones coupled with a rapidly increasing supply of the devices worldwide has the potential to improve productivity and, presumably, GDPs worldwide.
Wireless internet, meanwhile offers users a (generally) free way to access the internet which far more attractive to people. Using internet or email on a cellphone, PDA, or blackberry device costs a monthly service fee. The availability of this service at popular shops such as Starbucks owes a lot to technological advances. Recently, our power to send and receive data has increased exponentially, along with our ability to store it. As a result, we see many more websites offering larger and larger storage space to the consumer and increased availability of bandwidth in public "hotspots" where the internet can be accessed wirelessly.
The article mentioned originally provides information that tends to support the idea that the use of these wireless technolgies is increasing, which gives us reason to speculate about what other advances will be available for our use in the near future.

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