IP: FUTURE OF WIRELESS INTERNET: LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
>
> FUTURE OF WIRELESS INTERNET: LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION
>
> Author and venture capitalist David S. Bennahum says in Wired magazine that
> wireless services have been a disappointment so far because "it turns out
> that having the Web in your pocket is not all that useful." Then what would
> make wireless services really useful? Benahuman's answer is location,
> location, location. He writes: "The ability to pinpoint location will likely
> generate the sort of demand for wireless services we haven't yet seen,
> providing many with an 'aha' moment for mobile commerce and media. It could
> happen the first time your wireless phone gives you directions to where you
> want to go, simply and successfully. Or it could occur one quiet afternoon,
> when your phone alerts you that a friend is nearby, allowing you to
> rendezvous spontaneously for coffee... Sometime in the next few years we
> will find ourselves surrounded by a pervasive, always-on network. It will be
> more advanced in some areas, less so in others. The world is moving toward
> hyper-connectivity. Mobility and physical space will be the new drivers of
> innovation. And location awareness is the ingredient that will bind the
> physical world to the virtual." (Wired Nov 2001)
>
> <http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.11/>  to be posted on-line 11 Nov 
> 2001, available on newsstands now.


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