Technology NOW!

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Ive gotta do this. I ran across it today. It is the epidemy of what I believe is happening as we speak (see the 5 Strings opening slug top, left of page). And this...is only the beginning:

We stand at the brink of a transformation. It is a moment that echoes the birth of the internet in the mid seventies, when the radical pioneers of computer networking had machines talking to each other and hijacked the telephone system with their first digital hellos. Or that jaw dropper a decade later when the FCC official whose job it was to track the growth of communications networks suddenly realized that his neat tabulation of local and long distance had been made moot by the unforeseeable rise of local-area networks: an unregulated, unmonitored, uncontrollable phenomenon of the upstart PC industry that would soon shake the telecom world. Or the arrival of the web browser, which blew millions of minds, making a mouseclick feel like teleportation. This time it is not wires but the air between them that is being transformed. Over the past three years, a new wireless technology has arrived.