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WiFi - The wireless Internet has arrived -- and now the sky's the limit.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.05/unwired/wifirevolution.html

The Wi-Fi Revolution

The wireless Internet has arrived -- and now the sky's the limit.

By Chris Anderson

We stand at the brink of a transformation. It is a moment that echoes the birth of the Internet in the mid-'70s, when the radical pioneers of computer networking - machines talking to each other! - hijacked the telephone system with their first digital hellos. Or that jaw- dropper a decade later when the FCC official whose job it was to track the growth of communications networks suddenly realized that his neat tabulation of local and long-distance had been made moot by the unforeseen rise of local-area networks: an unregulated, unmonitored, uncontrollable phenomenon of the upstart PC industry that would soon shake the telecom world. Or the arrival of the Web browser, which blew millions of minds, making a mouseclick feel like teleportation.

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