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Broadband: The Future
Broadband: The Future |
What does tomorrow hold for broadband?
How about eyeglasses with an Internet link? Refrigerators, cars and elevators with computer screens? Digital web tablets that fit into your wallet? PCs and e-appliances that respond to voice commands? Computerized paper?
Don't laugh. The future, whose mantra will be "faster, cheaper," isn't as far off as you think. As Wilf Corrigan, the chairman-CEO of LSI Logic Corp., has said, "The broadband-enabled global communications infrastructure represents the mother of all technology opportunities."
As costs drop, installations get easier , and hardware and software applications evolve, broadband connections will be as widespread as electrical outlets. Some predict that 35 million of us will have broadband links in a few short years. They'll foster new services that will become standard threads in the fabric of our lives, accessible on a wide range of appliances, from PCs and TVs to cellular telephones, personal digital assistants and other mobile devices.
In this point-and-click universe powered by fiber-optics, digital technology and laser-beam transmission, the consumer will be king, and technology will be the courtier, acting on commands at the snap of a finger.
Go directly to the weather and skip the sports on your local broadcast TV channel. Do your own commentary for an NBA game, and share it in real time with a pal at the other end of the country. Send e-mails with audio and video elements. Work on a degree from a college in France out of your home office. Electronically pay bills. Connect all of the appliances in your home.
At work, use broadband to videoconference, link up with suppliers at a moment's notice, continually stay in touch with customers, and boost productivity by letting employees telecommute.
Remember black and white TV? Rotary telephones? Travel by train? Soon, we'll add dial-up Internet access to that list, thanks to the speeding pace of technological change.
In a June 2000 section that looked at new media and advancing technologies, The New York Times wrote that broadband-driven interactivity "will be knit seamlessly into children's and grownups' toys, into our kitchens, backyards and every place we go. The high-tech possibilities seem limitless, and the consumer [will be] suddenly powerful, deciding the shape and feel of the near future."