Around 1998, the computer was a commonplace item, but e-mail and the web was just getting started. Who could have imagined that almost everyone was going to be connected by the web, and that Google would make it the first place to look for information?
Business 2.0 says that we are on the verge of something new. We are connected at home, but soon we will be connected everywhere. (Consider the Treo 700p, for example, as a good start!) Wireless cell carriers, Wi-fi, Wi-Max and similar technologies promise to bring us an always connected mobile world.
"It's hard to get excited by the technology as it exists now," says James Enck, an analyst at Daiwa Securities SMBC Europe. "But when you look at everything that's happening, it starts to get really interesting."
Check out the full article to find links that give examples of some of the technologies that they consider to be revolutionary (but are already old hat to some of us bleeding edge guys and gals!):
* Productivity: The everywhere office
* Voice communication gets more flexible
* Beyond the map: Services that fit where you are
* Entertainment: Mobilizing the buddy list
* Tomorrow's wireless devices
Via
CNN Money.