In an age where rapid technology development produces concepts
and innovations that disappear often as quickly as they
come it’s only natural to ask the question—Will the Wireless
Internet survive? We believe the Wireless Internet will eventually
disappear.
It will be out of sight, but it will still exist. Not as the
wired or wireless Internet, but simply as “the Internet” or “the
network.” Access method and device will eventually become
irrelevant.
As the Wireless Internet evolves and embeds itself in the
society and culture of our modern world, the phrase “Wireless
Internet” will quietly go away. When is the last time you heard
someone refer to the “electric” light? Or the “gasoline powered”
automobile? Or even “indoor” plumbing? The descriptors
of how eventually fall away as society gets used to
assuming the obvious or irrelevant. What will matter in the
future is that a user is connecting to a network; whether that
user arrives via cable broadband, GPRS, or a public WLAN
won’t really matter.