CTXS-Thanks Molloy-Others too PLEASE! Further Thoughts here
Thank you so much for your aprasial of the tech feasibility of CRXS supplying the critical link between wireless phones & servers w/ huge databases and elaborate software.
If, as you say, it is feasible, but costly in wireless time charges and battery drain, then I guess the question becomes one of whether
1) the value of the service rendered will be more than the cost of air time
3) battery drain can be overcome by a) better batteries, b) more efficient phone CPU's , or c) ubiquitous power supply.
I think we must ask, "What is it, that if this constraint were eliminated, would totally change the paradigm?" My answer here is that we overcome a)the keyboard restraint (keyboards everywhere, speech recognition, or other b) she screen restraint(screens everywhere, special goggles, or other, and c) the battery restraint(better batteries, more efficient CPU's, solar collectors in our clothes, batteries in our clothes, battery exchange everywhere.
Then, having conceded that there can be ways around these three constraints, we must ask, "What are the driving forces to make it so?'
Consider this:
1)Information and the ability to use it in a timely manner are said to be the scarce resource for the 1990's and beyond. Thus, there is great value to having some system to serve up this information on demand, any time, any place.
2) Fast cycle times are becoming a way of life. They are the only solution for dealing with increasing complexity in a more and more competitive world. Deal with a task start to finish as fast as possible and go on to the next one. Information is required in abundance, any time, any place to achieve this.
3) Wireless phones connect people to people and people to information, not places to places. Places won't matter so much in this society. The power of this concept cannot be overstated. It doesn't sink in completely until you read some current commentaries on how wireless has changed Finnish society. The peer pressure there is so great that parents provide phones for 10 year old kids. The future here may well be the same. We've seen parents buy costly game-boys, Nikes, Nintindo in the past. Look at the craze over AOL's instant messages. There is immense power here. Once the momentum of this concept gets started, it could move our whole society just as it has moved the Fins.
4) Based on your comments, it appears that we really don't need to invent anything really new to connect wireless phones to servers.
5) I personally disagree with your thought that the concept would require data rates greater than 3G could provide. I see leaving the software and the data on the servers. People would simply receive by phone information--the software distilled essence of input data and the huge data base on the servers. Leave the data and the software out in cyberspace--just provide me the information I ask for a) accurately b) any time c) any place d) on a timely basis c) on a subscription basis(forget software and data base management & pay someone else to do it).
6) GROANS I'm SURE--but, Bill Gates seems to be headed this way too by allowing software licenses for application servers serving the public on a subscription basis.
Perhaps in 10 or 20 years we will all look back on the PC error as a 20 year transition period which led to the creation of a huge world wide wireless network connecting wireless devices to servers through the net.
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