The Completely Wired, Wireless Future Is Upon Us

I’ve checked emails, sent documents, and blogged wirelessly from cafes and from an airplane. The trend now seems toward super WiFi zones. The first time I heard about it was from the Minister of Education of Iceland a few years ago, who told me that Reykjavik would become a giant WiFi zone. Now it looks like Britain is on the way.

UPDATE: It turns out that the same move is underway in the U.S. The Washington Post (requires simple registration) reports, naturally, that the city will award a contract on the basis of free service to low income residents. (The rationales seem rather weak; access to WiFi is unlikely to be a big boost to getting out of poverty.)