Tuesday, January 27, 2004
Imagine if you were to go to a soda machine and you pull out your cellularphone and you enter some digits and presto a soda comes out the machine! With the ever increasing use of integrating computer technology that spreads more from the desk top to your cellularphone and televisions, the internet itself is making a comeback into the wireless world. Yet all this stuff isn't as simple as one would have us to believe. First of all, just because something is a good idea and even efficient doesn't necessarily means that it is marketable. A good example would be the wireless modem known as Ricochet at ricochet.com. It was started by Metricom but later sold to a company known as Aerie Networks. As I understand the reviews has been quite positive, but that is something I couldn't right now back up. The dilemna that is posed is that even though the internet itself is revolutionary and perhaps in the coming years will eventually take over;thus, to market a product online means that you have to be sensitive to local laws, structures and attitudes. The problem from this is that local laws does not have to always be deriviative or self-contained. Think about wireless access that allows users access the internet through the laptops through points from urban institutions which is becoming increasing if not more so popular in smaller cities and rural areas(a good example would be in El Cerrito, CA).
Either way, there is no doubt that the internet will take over but how so and under what guise is a big question. It is a point to remind those that the internet resembles a broader aspect of those who are able as I read somewhere who can utilize and take information to their advantage. The shortcomings will no doubt be 'the digital divide' as you see in authoritarian regimes blocking out some popular sites and class divisions in the areas of civil rights even here in the US. My blog will continue to put all this together and will among other things realize that the market of the internet economy isn't that dreadful and that there is a brighter future with an online community. The hurdle before us that the internet is only a primordial form incomplete of what the future and how it looks out there.
Either way, there is no doubt that the internet will take over but how so and under what guise is a big question. It is a point to remind those that the internet resembles a broader aspect of those who are able as I read somewhere who can utilize and take information to their advantage. The shortcomings will no doubt be 'the digital divide' as you see in authoritarian regimes blocking out some popular sites and class divisions in the areas of civil rights even here in the US. My blog will continue to put all this together and will among other things realize that the market of the internet economy isn't that dreadful and that there is a brighter future with an online community. The hurdle before us that the internet is only a primordial form incomplete of what the future and how it looks out there.
# posted by Jamie @ 4:21 PM 
