Nicholas Negroponte

Why Wi-Fi "lily pads and frogs" will transform the future of telecom.

Negroponte, Nicholas (2002). Being Wireless: Why Wi-Fi "lily pads and
frogs" will transform the future of telecom. Wired Magazine. Issue
10.10, October 2002.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.10/wireless.html
In this article, Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the MIT Media Lab
(www.media.mit.edu/), paints a picture of a world with a communications
infrastructure built, organically – by the people, for the people. He
envisions individually-managed wireless hotspots creating overlapping
“lilypads” of connectivity, leading to an open wireless infrastructure.

Syndicate content