{"id":65,"date":"2005-12-23T16:02:24","date_gmt":"2005-12-23T21:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.elharo.com\/blog\/?p=65"},"modified":"2008-05-29T10:23:11","modified_gmt":"2008-05-29T15:23:11","slug":"the-wireless-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/tech\/2005\/12\/23\/the-wireless-future\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wireless Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so dated as yesterday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s futurism. In 1993 naming a high-tech magazine \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Wired\u00e2\u20ac\u009d must have seemed really hip. Today \u00e2\u20ac\u0153wired\u00e2\u20ac\u009d devices are yesterday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s tech. No one wants a mess like this one, but everyone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s got one:<\/p>\n<p><img src='\/blog\/images\/JIO_2501.JPG' width='600' height='628' alt='cable disaster' \/><\/p>\n<p>Slowly that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s starting to change. Network, speaker, microphone, mouse, and keyboard cables are already going wireless. Disks, cameras, and monitors are going to follow. By the end of this decade, most systems should have a power cord and nothing more. By 2020 even the power cord might vanish.  It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s obvious the future belongs to wireless. After all, every cable you can remove from your system is one less leash tethering you to your desk. 802.11 is de rigueur for notebooks and increasingly common in desktops. Cell phones let us communicate from anywhere. Infrared remote controls freed us from commercials and gave rise to the clicker. And Bluetooth is rapidly becoming the preferred way to connect computers to low bandwidth peripherals like keyboards and mice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so dated as yesterday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s futurism. In 1993 naming a high-tech magazine \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Wired\u00e2\u20ac\u009d must have seemed really hip. Today \u00e2\u20ac\u0153wired\u00e2\u20ac\u009d devices are yesterday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s tech. No one wants a mess like this one, but everyone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s got one: Slowly that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s starting to change. Network, speaker, microphone, mouse, and keyboard cables are already going wireless. Disks, cameras, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[410],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}