The Next Big Thing

I'm hoping that the next Big Thing will be prevasive wireless internet. Large carriers charging your standard $40 a month to access their networks. Just like a cell phones have taken off over the last ten years. Of course, it would also be great if a neato open source P2P system where everybody put on their tie-dye shirts and opened their wi-fi boxes to everyone... what am I talking about, this is America (or Canada, can't be sure...).

I think the killer app that would drive that would be VoIP cell phones. Of course, who owns all the comm towers that are sprinkled across the continent? Cell carriers. Who stand to lose the most to a pervasive wifi system that can use VoIP cell phones? Cell carriers. Who like to charge lots for measly dial-up speed internet? Cell carriers.

Ah well, it was a nice dream.