From: Avatar Polymorph (avatarpolymorph@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Aug 21 2002 - 11:03:40 MDT
Did anyone read that article in Wired about the portable small wireless
modem that allows transmission in California from strapped-on units on
mobile phone towers to your laptop/PC with data transmission levels
equivalent to satellite/cable?
Heck, I'll subscribe when it gets here (prob. 5 years after you guys, groan)
(at least we get good weather and good food and a good health system and no
guns...)
--- vis a vis 150+ billion dollars of surplus telcomm stock, it'll probably be out of date, much of it, as well. Companies are often helpless at tech prediction, being driven by - sorry - somewhat idiotic people quite often. For example, digital ink. Try investing in that now - the first comers won't let anyone past! How many people didn't predict that obvious one. How many twitty articles did I read confusing e-books with digital ink books! The telecom industry has several major league scale-ups on line, e.g. in optical fibre switching capacity with nanotech systems. As we've heard on this forum, computer capacity is about to take off in 2004. Video is going to be big, big, big and it will start as soon as it becomes feasible to do EASILY. Here's another prediction: folks will be downloading CDAs instead of MP3s as soon as it becomes easy/feasible. ==== Plus another silly gripe just for the heck of it: Commentators who say tech stock is worthless because of the dot.com bubble. Commentators who mistake "networking" dot.com companies with software companies. Sheesh! Commentators who say biotech ain't going to go nowhere... [Tell it to "Blue Gene"...] Guess time will tell! _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com
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