What kind of effect is wireless going to have on personal computing in the next five years?
Wireless antennas seamlessly integrated–I think that’s the way people really want. Because over time, we’re going to see the wireless LAN (local area network) be used as kind of standard equipment, I think. (Right now, IBM ThinkPad A Series notebooks have integrated wireless LAN.) So you can expect notebook computers and probably handhelds, more further out, to have integrated wide-area wireless and notebook computers to have integrated local area, 802.11B. You’re going to start seeing wireless networks pop up at corporations and in homes, executive lounges and gate areas. There are also hotels being wired. We’re going to see people moving between these pockets of wireless LAN connectivity to slower wide-area connections. People will want both, but people will try to utilize wireless LANs at work and home and airport, and if none of those is available, they’ll certainly want the wide area. Wireless really does change the way you work. When you can go to a meeting and have access to co
