Wireless Electricity Or Surgically Implanted Web Under Our Skin?

by Elias Shams
Which one is next?

The launch of iPad by Apple last week, took me back to the mid 90’s when I had just started accessing the Internet using my state of art technology 9600 bps analog modem I still remember my excitement over 18,200 bps modem when it came out. WOW! Then, there was ISDN that became obsolete two years later, then DSL, Cable, and Wi-Fi in parallel with struggling WiMax.

Can you now imagine functioning without Wi-Fi? Even Wi-Fi is old News these days. Considering how fast the smartphones like iPhone, Google’s Nexus One, Droid are becoming our next computing device, let’s skip the internet access topic from PC to 3G (3rd Generation) mobile network that was introduced in the early 2000s and quickly spread to major cities worldwide.

There is even 4G Phones that its rumors came out by the French website earlier this month. It is supposed to be the next generation of iPhone (to be released in July of this year). The Apple Tablet is even rumored to have a data plan on Verizon and AT&T’s 3G networks. More and more laptops come with built-in 3G and WiMax access as well.

The other interesting prospect was the participation of Google, Verizon Wireless, and a few other companies  in a bidding process for the 700 MHz wireless spectrum back in 2008 which was eventually awarded to Verizon Wireless. Where did FCC get the 700 MHz spectrum to auction it off? It was the spectrum all TV Stations used to use to deliver their TV programming before March of last year when they all became digital. Let’s see where Verizon Wireless will take us with that – a Nationwide Wi-Fi maybe? If that is the case, not sure how they will pull this off. The infrastructure costs would be astronomical.

All this make me to believe that the web will be accessible from anywhere and at any time in very near future. The Web of the future will be truly mobile. It will be inside us. We will never have to worry about losing phones ever again. You never know, phone chips might even be surgically implanted subcutaneously under our skin Perhaps, voice recognition will become thought recognition. Web access via smartphones is just the start of the web branching out from computers.

Anyway, you can bet there will be more devices accessing to these networks and that these networks will be more prevalent as time goes on. Web access from mobile devices, social media traffic, and real time web search will grow immensely over the next few years. Our TV might change from a one-way listening device to a two-way interactive listening, communication, information, and social device.

Communication will soon to be open, honest, and transparent… at all levels. Will it be possible that at some point all processes on the phone will be controlled by our thoughts too?

The limiting factor now is that we have to plug everything in so the battery doesn’t die. Let’s hurry up with wireless electricity

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