Don't Look Up..........

[susieq]

Hello,
well, I believe Willy Shakespeare said "all the worlds' a stage" and Arthur C Clarke said in 2061: Odyssey Three, we would all be on mobile phones and "one big gossiping family"

Now look at what has gone and happened

Verizon Sets Up Phone Booths For Internet Use Without Wires
 
By BARNABY J. FEDER (NYT)

Verizon Communications introduces phone booth as its newest weapon in competition to dominate broadband communications market in future; Verizon says subscribers to its high-speed Internet access service will be able to go online wirelessly at no charge when they are near Verizon phone booth in Manhattan; Verizon says 150 phone booths have already been equipped with radio-signal technology, popularly known as Wi-Fi, to enable mobile computer users who are within 300 feet of booth to connect to Internet; about 1,000 booths covering virtually all of Manhattan and few spots in other boroughs will become Wi-Fi 'hot spots' by end of year; map (M) Verizon Communications yesterday introduced one of the oldest items in its inventory -- the humble phone booth -- as its newest weapon in the bitter competition to dominate the broadband communications market of the future.
Verizon said that subscribers to its high-speed Internet access service would be able to go online wirelessly at no charge when they are near a Verizon phone booth in Manhattan."

Well, we actually be running ahead of our schedule...........what do you think
Sue

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40B13FF355B0C778DDDAC0894DB404482&fta=y

[Queen Bee]

Wow, another wave of the future