The Future of Wireless Technology

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Adam Ford CITF 200 – 41396 Assignment 7 October 21, 2012 The Future Evolution of Wireless Technology The future of wireless technology holds a lot for mankind. We will push forward as a species making it faster, better, and more reliable than ever because it’s just what we do. The biggest question is how fast can we make wireless technologies go? Obviously devices are getting smaller and faster every year and there’s definitely no question that new wireless devices are being invented every day. Where does it stop? How fast does it become? What does the future hold? Everybody laughed during the 2010 Super Bowl when Ozzy Osbourne made a Best Buy ad with Justin Bieber about their new buy back service. The commercial jumped from a 4G phone to a 5G and finally a 6G. Ozzy’s actual words at one point of the commercial asked, “How many bloody G’s are there?” as he’s seen holding a phone that says 5G on the screen. Towards the end of the commercial, Bieber is seen holding a phone that says 6G on the screen. The point of the Best Buy commercial is that our technologies advance so fast that when something new comes out, they will buy back your older technology which is one of the most brilliant moves by a retailer since the technology age began. We all buy the latest and greatest technologies only to be disappointed a few months later when an upgraded better version of what we bought comes out. According to Kurtis Jensen a writer for Valve Magazine, “Wireless technology is a game changer… Wireless lowers implementation costs, expands access to information and allows control in areas previously held back by technical or economic barriers.” (Jenson). It has been just that. It’s allowed us to do things we only once dreamt of like accessing the internet while on the road, or typing a paper while sitting outside of your home and it will continue to allow us to do more and

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