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--- In Optionality@yahoogroups.com, "anythinganywhereanytime"
<anythinganywhereanytime@y...> wrote:
> The wireless World
>
> Cordless phones are now commonly used in offices and at home.
> Batteries are getting smaller and more powerful. Mobile phones are
> taking over from fixed phones. And the WiFi revolution that is now
> shaking up notebooks, laptops and pocket computers, is spreading
> into the telephone industry, and into TV and sound systems.
>
> What price are people prepared to pay for wireless? Some people
> suggest it's too expensive and too much work to put wireless
> connections into all telephones, computers, speakers and other
> equipment that now is still connected by wires. But if mass-
> produced, wireless connections could be cheap enough to be built
> into new devices at a very low cost. So, what is the alternative?
A
> spaghetti of wires that is an eyesore gathering dust behind each
> equipment? The following story may illustrate the point.
>
> Perhaps you've also tried to connect the VCR and DVD-player to
your
> newly-purchased 5.1 home theater system, only to end up entangled
in
> wires and power cords? When John had this very experience, his
wife
> said that all these wires reminded her of this monster that was
> hiding underneath the computer-desk, where telephone lines, power
> cords and cables met in a spaghetti that seemed to feed ever more
> screens, PCU units, keyboards, mice, mikes and speakers. She never
> liked his Local Area Network that was supposedly make life easier.
> For her, it was just another ugly cable worming its way through
her
> house. When John tried to explain that this LAN allowed the two
PCs
> to share the scanner and the printer, she replied: "Why didn't you
> just buy an extra printer and scanner, that would have been
cheaper!"
>
> When he tried to connect the PC to the TV-set, John discovered
that
> they were each entangled into a ball of wires, and - as it turned
> out - he couldn't move either equipment anyway. The PC was fixed
to
> the phone socket in the wall and it needed to stay there to be
> connected to the Internet. And the TV was connected to the outside
> aerial. So, how was he going to play those movie trailers on the
> home theater system, to show his wife that it was all worthwhile?
> John never liked compromise, but he did decide to burn them on his
> new DVD-burner and move the disc physically to the DVD-player that
> was nesting somewhere underneath the TV.
>
> Then, when he was finally going to show off all this beauty to his
> wife, John discovered that the DVD-player that was connected to
the
> Home Theater system, couldn't handle the burned DVD. And just when
> he had given up, his daughter came in, carrying her CD-player and
> videogame console under her arm, wondering if he could hook it up
to
> this new home theater system, while his son demanded that his
gear,
> specifically his MIDI-keyboard, would finally be connected to the
> computer.
>
> Wireless isn't a luxury - at some stage, there's no alternative!
> Wireless makes sense - no messy cables, no dust-gathering
spaghetti
> that takes up valuable space! Furthermore, the convenience of
> mobility - change things as you like!
>
> Already now, most notebook computers come with a wireless
> connection. Being mass-produced, a WiFi connection doesn't add
much
> extra cost if integrated into the design of microprocessors.
Hotels
> and restaurants are discovering that it is lucrative to offer
> interconnection to their customers. Supermarkets are considering
> setting up hotspots in their stores. Offices are considering it,
and
> so are manufacturers of audio systems. Many predict a wireless
world
> in which all systems, equipment, computers and hand-held devices
can
> communicate over wireless connections, anywhere, any time.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Anything, anywhere, anytime