LIFE TURNS DIGITAL

We possess increasingly more personal digital content—digital
photos and video clips, digital music clips, and even cherished
emails. (Admit it—you’ve saved more than one personal email
for no other reason that to read it over and over, you softie!)
The Wireless Internet will encourage the collection of a growing
amount of personal digital content. Some of the newer
wireless devices have already announced plans for MP3 players,
audio-recording capabilities, and built-in digital cameras.
We will soon have the tools to digitally capture and share
like never before. Just as the world was forever changed with
the adoption of the personal video camcorder. (As chronicled
by shows like America’s Funniest Home Videos—just imagine
what the future will bring. Anyone care to tune into America’s
Funniest PDA Audio Captures? Just think: You could actually
win a prize for recording those Dilbertesque comments your
boss makes in the weekly staff meetings.) 219

WIRELESS INTERNET— THIS TIME IT’S PERSONAL!

Our personal information is increasingly found in digital format—
pictures, letters, bills, receipts, videos—digital means it’s
easier to share not only content but the impact of content,
whether the content is informational, educational, entertaining,
or emotional.
Internet users today can create messages that incorporate
many media types: emails can include attachments of sound,
picture, audio, and pure data files. But let’s think about what
we would send and when we send it once we have the ability to
compose and send while mobile. In short, real-time distribution
will result in an increase in the quality and frequency of
communication.