| We all have mobile phones these days, laptops and | | | | in each device. This would kill the battery and create |
| or netbooks for work and home, our own WiFi | | | | a need for more RAM than could be readily and |
| networks at work and at home, plus Bluetooth, plus | | | | inexpensively provided. |
| plus plus! | | | | For storing work and personal documents where |
| So why can't I put all these together? | | | | they are highly secure, I recommend the IronKey. |
| Why can't I listen to music from my personal mobile | | | | I also suggest a netbook instead of a cell phone. This |
| whilst taking calls using the same headset on my | | | | device is larger than a cell phone but not as large as |
| Blackberry from work and from MS Communicator | | | | a laptop and is a good compromise for some of the |
| on my PC? | | | | stated needs. |
| Why can't I forward my Live Meeting conference | | | | The reason for generations of connection rates etc. |
| calls to the mobile? | | | | is quite simply that the supporting infrastructure |
| Why can't I pair all these devices together with | | | | needs to be built out. For a cell tower to handle |
| Bluetooth at the same time? | | | | Multimegabit traffic to all the cell phones in its vicinity |
| Why doesn't it recognize that I am in the car and | | | | would require say, 100 fold that capacity to the |
| switch to the car radio handsfree without switching | | | | tower. That pushes the envelope and is quite |
| off the stereo headset? | | | | expensive. |
| How come I can't store all my work and personal | | | | "The Cloud" is not what its being hyped to be. It is |
| documents where they are equally accessible but | | | | not a concept of some nebulous and unformed "out |
| highly secure? | | | | there" that does everything for free. The cloud is |
| How many more generations will I have to go thru | | | | about resources expanding and contracting with |
| before WiFi and 3G (or 3.5G or 6G etc) work out the | | | | need, using a particular software interface design. |
| best price performance for any given connection / | | | | Although some services might provide you with the |
| application automatically? | | | | ability to store all your stuff, there will always be a |
| I want my applications (and documents, music, books | | | | catch of price, enduring advertising or uncertain |
| etc) all stored somewhere "in the cloud" and not tied | | | | security. |
| to specific devices or applications or locations. | | | | It will not be fixed in the foreseeable future. It is |
| Who is going to fix this for us ? and WHEN ??? | | | | neither technically or economically feasible. |
| This is one of those things that looks very easy but | | | | It's interesting to look at "The future" as it was |
| it is quite hard. It will be a very long time before this | | | | anticipated 30 or 40 years ago. It has not turned out |
| is accomplished. | | | | as expected. A favorite touch stone is the Kubrick |
| First, all these different things you mention require | | | | Movie "2001". There you see a spaceport in the sky, |
| memory and processing power that is not practical in | | | | routine trips to the moon and a manned trip to |
| a cell phone. One of the most common complaints | | | | Jupiter. You also see a computer that has a |
| with smart phones is that the battery runs out too | | | | personality and responds to conversational speech. |
| soon. The more performance, the more current | | | | These things seemed in reach to many people in |
| required to sustain it. | | | | 1969, but to people who looked deeper, completely |
| Battery performance is stuck in some principles of | | | | unrealistic. |
| physics and safety ... how many Kw hours do you | | | | The movie and others of its time also assumed |
| want near your body parts. At a certain point, the | | | | computers would be very large, something you |
| amount of energy becomes more like an explosive | | | | would walk into. They are very small and modern |
| than a battery. | | | | design actually requires a computer to be small since |
| Another issue is that mobile phones obtain the | | | | the switching speed is so fast that a signal crossing a |
| battery longevity they do by sleeping a lot, literally | | | | room would take too long, due to never exceeding |
| between key strokes. Something active and | | | | the speed of light. |
| animated live meeting would run down the battery in | | | | The best approach to technology is to work within |
| minutes, even less time than a typical meeting. | | | | what it provides. There are reasons why your |
| Bluetooth is a point to point protocol. It is a radio | | | | dreams are not fulfilled and they will not be fulfilled in |
| replacement for a wire. People think of it as | | | | your life time (at least not all of them). On the other |
| broadcast because it is a radio but it is not. To | | | | hand, there are things that you don't think of that |
| connect to multiple devices would require multiple | | | | are already in the works. |
| buffers, multiple processors to account for time lags | | | | |