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To: Michael Hart who wrote (12664)	11/10/2003 1:15:59 PM
From: Rob S.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Hmmm .. that's a very good perspective to be coming from imo. You saw how that once 10Base-t became reasonably plug and play that networking really took off and now is a standard feature of hundreds of millions of devices. The benefits of networking were long perceived to have been attractive but it took compliance among vendors to make it worthwhile outside of the IT shop environment that could force their own compliance mandates. Wireless broadband is similar in market dynamics but is a more complex, and potentially more explosive phenomena imo. While high speed wired networks changed the architecture of computer environments, user terminals/devices still operated in a similar fashion. The PC brought more power to the user, and having it connected via Ethernet caused a shift to distributed computing, but it didn't change the physical locality and function between the user and his work. High speed networking did open up new means of productivity such as much greater collaboration, but it has tethered physical limits. Wireless broadband opens up new ways of relating and responding to data and other users or groups of users and programs. Combined with the ability to integrate rich media, such as video, the enhancements to many aspects of business and personal life become magnified. There are so many "What if we could do . . ." scenarios that become possible, many that have promise of creating new business enterprises not before possible. There are basic laws of physics that limit the amount of data that can be communicated over a given amount of spectrum within the range of the signal. But the new semiconductor, wireless designs, and exciting methods that are starting to scale and be used to focus and direct and differentiate, and actively cancel signals in time and space are about to reshape much of what we take for granted as limitations. And wireless certainly won't stand alone as a media - it will be used with wired and fiber optic and with distributed data stores and other methods to enhance and ensure data flows.